The night sky is an object of fascination for many, and the Princeton community is no exception. On select nights throughout ...

The Phoenix Cluster's central galaxy is about 5.8 billion light-years away and should be mostly done with star formation. Many galaxy clusters have a region of hot gas in the intracluster medium (ICM) ...

Scientists have been scratching their heads for ages, trying to figure out why some galaxies just stop churning out stars.

While the events observed around Sgr A* are dramatic, this black hole is not as active as some at the center of other ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million ...

Astronomers capture a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, offering a rare glimpse into the hidden framework of the universe.

How do you cool down a phoenix? I don't mean the mythological birds of flame and rebirth, but rather a cosmic namesake with a fittingly fiery nature.