Pictures are the key to new insights in the field of astrophysics. Such images include simulations of cosmic events, which ...

Simulations based on Einstein’s theory of relativity test scenarios that might have preceded the Big Bang, to observe the ...

The impending merger of the two galaxies hints at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and ...

Critically, this simulation also includes the effects of dark matter. This theoretical substance could create vast, unobservable structures between galaxies which have given the universe the extra ...

Researchers are using supercomputer simulations grounded in Einstein’s relativity to test scenarios about what may have ...

Supercomputer “ATERUI III” opens new era of simulation astronomy National Institutes of Natural Sciences image: The new supercomputer for astronomy “ATERUI III.” view more Credit: NAOJ ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

Astronomers have studied the merger of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719 to understand the future collision between the Milky ...

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...

A new computer simulation from NASA's Ames Research Center shows what galaxy mergers might look like over billions of years. You're seeing swirling gases, dust and rock as they move throughout a ...