New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...
The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...
In about four billion years from now, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will crash together Visualization: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers, STScI Simulation credit: NASA, ESA, G. Besla, Columbia ...
Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...
The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic ...
The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and gravity known to science.Researchers have now gotten their best look yet at ...
Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...