It was only one state senate race in Texas. Low-turnout, off-cycle elections are seldom good predictors of larger trends. And the Democrats had a better candidate: a working-class aircraft mechanic ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming stars at an intense rate from collapsing clouds of dust. Reported in ...

Some of the biggest galaxies in the universe stopped making stars billions of years ago, and even today, no one fully understands why. This mystery is puzzling because many of these galaxies still ...

This Hubble image showcases N159, a massive star-forming cloud where newborn stars blaze to life inside icy hydrogen gas. Their powerful radiation lights the cloud in red and sculpts giant bubbles ...

Astronomers are drawing attention to a Christmas Tree-shaped cluster of stars glowing inside one of the Milky Way’s most active stellar nurseries. Known as the Cosmic Christmas Tree, the cluster sits ...

Scientists Study Ancient Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, Seeking Clues to Early Star System Formation The colour change reveals ancient carbon chemistry, offering rare insights into material formed ...

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Astronomers have made a surprising discovery about NGC 6789, an isolated dwarf galaxy located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. Despite residing in the Local Void—one of the ...

Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 billion stars individually. Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, ...

About 12 million light years away lies an impossible galaxy. Over the last 600 million years, its core has been forming new stars – but there is no apparent source for the fuel that has fed that star ...

A telescope tasked with making the largest-ever map of the universe has confirmed a harsh, if unsurprising, truth: Nothing lasts forever — not cold November rain, or even the cosmos itself. Using a ...

New infrared observations from NASA’s SOFIA observatory have revealed a puzzling slowdown in massive star formation near the center of our Galaxy. Credit: Stock The current rate of star formation at ...