The Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, is slowly moving toward us at incredible speed. Astronomers ...

How is it that galaxies merge and collide but the universe is expanding and everything is moving away from everything else? Justin HammersleySterling Heights, Michigan Whether or not galaxies merge ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

Discover the fascinating world of hydroxyl megamasers, powerful cosmic lasers revealing secrets of distant galaxies and the universe's evolution.

Astrophysicists have identified the brightest, most distant 'space laser', or gigamaser, originating from a galactic collision 8 billion light-years away.

An extraordinarily rare, gravitationally lensed supernova may offer a powerful new way to measure the universe’s expansion rate.

Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.

Detecting supermassive black holes just before their merger would lead to significant advances in astrophysics. To achieve this, a new innovative approach combines the study of the gravitational ...

From 19 to 22 January, 80 particle physicists, astronomers and cosmologists gathered at CERN for the first “All that ...

An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the aftermath of what some call "galactic cannibalism:" the aftermath of a 100 million-year-old cosmic collision ...

That changed early last year with the quiet opening of the Charleston Planetarium, a bright STEM-forward spot tucked inside the Citadel Mall that invites all Lowcountry locals to come and help write ...