From outer space to Northwestern labs, researchers at the University have recently made notable advancements in astrophysics ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought.

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp ...

Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe.

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...