A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists. The burst, known ...

With the help of data, scientists can look through cosmic dust to better understand how galaxies transform during such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration shows a possible view from Earth of the early stages of a predicted merger billions of years from now between ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, researchers pinpointed a short gamma-ray burst to a faint galaxy that appears to be part of a larger group of galaxies about 8.5 ...