Making it work would require pulling a lot of (cosmic) strings—but perhaps we need wild explanations to explain wild events.

Microblazars — a miniature version of blazars — may be responsible for mysterious ultra-high-energy particles.

Researchers have developed a new simulation to recreate the initial year of our galaxy. The work takes us back to cosmic dawn, the moment a hundred or so million years after the B ...

NASA's new PRIMA Space Telescope will search for clues to some of the most perplexing mysteries of the cosmos.

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Like Earth, most planetary bodies circle their star in stable, detached orbits. These companionable systems can suddenly ...

Dark matter could be a type of matter in the universe that does not emit, absorb or reflect detectable light and appears to ...

The Fukuda Memorial Foundation supports ambitious young people with "non-repayable grant-type scholarships" so they can draw ...

A new simulation shows a possible scenario for the formation of the Milky Way. According to this scenario, at the very ...

Some sci-fi movies play fast and loose with physics, but these great films use hard science to portray space travel.

The MEGATRON simulations model how thousands of early galaxies, including starless gas systems, merged and evolved into a Milky Way-like galaxy after the Big Bang.