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 ...

A novel "X-arithmetic" technique reveals how black holes shape the universe's largest structures.

"A cloud of energetic particles this large has never been observed in this galaxy cluster or any other." Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that a galaxy cluster ...

ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has spied hot gas sloshing around within a galaxy cluster – a never-before-seen behaviour that may be driven by turbulent merger events. Galaxy clusters are the ...

James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — Space photo of the week The James Webb telescope proves Einstein right, 8 times over — Space photo of the week ...

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" ...

New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own. The core of a massive ...

"Dance, dance… otherwise we are lost." This oft-cited phrase by Pina Bausch encapsulates not only the urgency of movement, but its capacity to reveal space itself. In her choreographies, space is ...