The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies…
RESEARCH
Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as bacteria, transported through space, and landing on another planet. The…
A cosmic dance between two merging galaxies, each one containing a supermassive black hole that’s…
A new study finds that Earth’s water may have come from materials that were present…
In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student rocket team…
It’s hard to get a good night’s sleep in space. An evaluation of astronauts serving on the…
Astronomers studying galaxy evolution have long struggled to understand what causes star formation to shut…
It seems the universe has an odd sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has…
It lacks the drama of a shape-shifting alien creature, but another threat looms over the…
A few minutes into the life of the universe, colliding emissions of light energy created…
