Schematic illustration of the hierarchical structure of the universe, from a galaxy group (a collection of galaxies) to an individual galaxy...

Quasars have been found with luminosities between 10 to 100,000 times that of the Milky Way. Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / stock imag...

Simulated gas distribution (blue, green, and yellow colors) around galaxies (white dots on the image). The study finds that gas in our Unive...

Observation by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope identified GeV gamma-ray excess toward LHAASO J1912-1014u and confirm it to be a proto...

At the center of the Little Red Dot, there may be a black hole surrounded by a thick outer gaseous envelope. In this environment, photons pr...

Left: visualization of a space-time-crystal. Right: a cubic crystal structure Image Credit: Technische Universität Wien Scientific Frontline...

Image Credit: Courtesy of University of Barcelona / CANVAS Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : The CIGaRS Frame...

Dark matter decays could be the missing ingredient explaining how giant black holes formed before the first stars Image Credit: Scientific F...

Visual impression of the dynamic range in the high-resolution COLIBRE simulation L025m5 at redshift z = 0.1. The top left panel shows a proj...

Artist’s interpretation of the cosmic distance ladder — a succession of overlapping methods used to measure distances across the Universe, w...

Bhupal Dev / Associate Professor of Physics Photo Credit: Courtesy of Washington University in St. Louis Scientific Frontline: Extended ...

An artist's impression shows the giant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 as it collides and merges with a smaller companion galaxy, stirring up sta...

Cosmology is the scientific study of the origin, evolution, large-scale structures, and eventual fate of the universe as a whole. Its primar...

An artist’s rendition of the immediate vicinity around the supermassive black hole known as M87*. However, the roiling, superhot gases aroun...

A quark zooms through quark-gluon plasma, creating a wake in the plasma. “Studying how quark wakes bounce back and forth will give us new in...

Created using data from NASAs Webb telescope in 2026 (right) and from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2007 (left), these images show the prese...

Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated (Gemini) Space Science is the multifaceted scientific discipline dedicated to the explorat...

The stars (or rather galaxies) of the show. A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There’s an entire galaxy at the center...

Gamma-ray image of the Milky Way halo (with details). Gamma-ray intensity map excluding components other than the halo, spanning approximate...

Betelbuddy, the companion star to Betelgeuse. This image is a color composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Image Cre...