A bubbly-looking galaxy smashup called the Champagne Cluster offers a rare glimpse into cosmic collisions—and the hidden behavior of dark matter. The Champagne Cluster is a dramatic cosmic system ...

The galaxy cluster is filled with bubbles blown into X-ray emitting gas, producing some of the deepest sounds ever heard. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Cluster is providing new insights into the working of a ‘space tsunami’ that plays a role in disrupting the calm and beautiful aurora, or Northern Lights, creating patterns of auroral dances in the ...

The gas is so hot, between 10 million and 100 million degrees Celsius, that it radiates in powerful X-rays. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Glittering new James Webb telescope image shows an 'intricate web of chaos' — Space photo of the week The James Webb telescope proves Einstein right, 8 times over — Space photo of the week Webb ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a greater abundance of extremely faint and distant galaxies than ever before.

A computational model of the early-to-present-day Universe predicts that some of the first stars formed in structures that challenge conventional classification. Read the paper: The emergence of ...

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have put together a detailed map of a rare collision between four galaxy clusters. Eventually all four clusters — each ...

The James Webb Space Telescope continues to capture images of space that are clearer and more detailed than what we've seen before. One of the latest images it has taken is of a "super star cluster" ...