The Milky Way and Andromeda have appeared locked on a destructive course for decades. Now, thousands of simulations suggest their collision is not destiny, but a contest between gravity, uncertain ...

Astronomers have identified a potential new clue that could help track some of the universe’s most elusive objects: runaway ...

Dark matter may be far more complicated than scientists once believed. A new study suggests it could consist of at least two ...

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Conceptual Image Lab Dust patterns around quasars may help reveal supermassive ...

Astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope report that a massive galaxy from the early universe shows no sign of ...

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Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

A couple of Galaxies Collide Podcast: Jonathan Frakes, Armin Shimerman, And you can Kitty Swink Cam PanCAN, Purple Stride, As well as ...

A newly discovered group of tiny red galaxies may help solve one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: where the universe’s ...

Astronomers have identified one of the most distant candidate galaxies known to leak ionizing radiation—the same kind of radiation thought to have transformed the early universe during the epoch of ...

Far beyond the Milky Way, vast collections of galaxies continue to drift, gather and occasionally collide. One such region has drawn astronomers’ attention for decades.

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the ...