Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do ...

From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...

For a generation, cosmologists have worked with a simple story: the universe is not only expanding, it is expanding faster ...

It’s an open secret in astronomy that, practically wherever the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) looks in the sky, a vast, ...

NASA has found something that will help understand how the cosmos was when everything barely started. Imagine someone screams in a far away place and that ...

Scientists have created the most detailed map yet of dark matter—the mysterious substance that makes up most of the universe and quietly shapes everything we see around us. Using new observations from ...

Recent discoveries show that runaway black holes, moving at extraordinary speeds, are tearing through galaxies, leaving ...

When astronomers look out into the cosmos, they see supermassive black holes (SMBH) in two different states. In one state, they're dormant. They're actively accreting only a tiny amount of matter and ...

An illustration of a young solar system immersed in high-energy cosmic rays from a nearby supernova. Unlike considering only direct injection of supernova ejecta, this process naturally explains key ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most energetic particles come from. Their studies uncovered a pulsar wind ...