For decades, astronomers have cast galaxy mergers as the universe's ultimate relationship drama: two galaxies collide, chaos ...

Stars and galaxies make up much of the universe's ordinary, observable matter. But for decades, scientists have wrestled with ...

Look around you for a moment. Your phone, your house, the air you breathe, and even your own body are made of materials that did not exist at the beginning of the Universe. In fact, almost everything ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

A galaxy dying is not a gentle thing. Its star-making factories, once churning out millions of suns, grind to a halt. Rather than a slow fade, it's a sudden, striking shutdown, a phenomenon ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest star clusters and galaxies. These short-lived giants not only forged the ...

Distant galaxies that abruptly stopped making stars have puzzled astronomers for years. About 9 billion years ago, during one of the busiest periods in cosmic history, many massive galaxies were still ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

PHOENIX —Thousands of newly spotted galaxies are dressed for a Victorian ball: in hoop skirts. The cache of “polar structure galaxies” — with large starry or dusty structures oriented perpendicular to ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. Markarian 178 (Mrk 178) is one of over 1500 "Markarian galaxies," a class defined by their ...

This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY Billions of light years away in a remote part of ...