NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

Scientists have detected a surprisingly hot galaxy cluster dating back to the universe’s infancy. The cluster formed far ...

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified an entirely new type of cosmic object. It is a cloud rich ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

“This galaxy was developing bars 2 billion years after the birth of the universe," Daniel Ivanov, a graduate researcher at ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new stars.

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...