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...

Infrared view of the universe captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI. Ever since the James Webb ...

This artist’s impression (not to scale) illustrates the path of the fast radio burst FRB 20220610A, from the distant galaxy where it origina...

Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, left, at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile houses the camera used by the Dark Energy ...

Numerical simulation of the neutron stars merging to form a black hole, with their accretion disks interacting to produce electromagnetic wa...

G299 was left over by a particular class of supernovas called Type Ia.  Credit: NASA/CXC/U.Texas  Astrophysicists have performed a powerful ...

The colorful lines show how cosmic radiation is deflected in magnetic fields. The white straight lines represent a large-scale magnetic fiel...

The dwarf galaxy NGC1427A flies through the Fornax galaxy cluster and undergoes disturbances which would not be possible if this galaxy were...

 The radiation residue from the Big Bang, distorted by dark matter 12 billion years ago. Credit: Reiko Matsushita A collaboration led by sci...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) by night Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org) One of the most dis...

DESI’s three-dimensional “CT scan” of the Universe. The earth is in the lower left, looking out over 5 billion light years in the direction ...

The CAMELS project (Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations) combines over 4,000 cosmological simulations, millions of ...

Black holes really are giant fuzzballs, a new study says. The study attempts to put to rest the debate over Stephen Hawking’s famous informa...