A team including Northwestern University astrophysicists has developed the most realistic, highest-resolution 3D simulation of star formation to date. The result is a visually stunning, mathematically ...

Understanding the early universe is a foundational goal in space science. We're driven to understand nature and how it evolved from a super-heated plasma after the Big Bang to the structured cosmos we ...

Astronomers using computer simulations have investigated whether a class of star clusters nicknamed "cosmic wallflowers" ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has again completed a pursuit thought to be almost "impossible" by humans. It creates a Milky Way simulation showcasing the progress of more than 100 billion individual ...

A new set of supercomputer simulations published June 5, 2026 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has provided the most quantitatively precise confirmation yet of why binary star ...

Some galaxies spend billions of years churning out stars at a relentless pace — then, almost abruptly, go quiet. Astronomers have watched this transition play out across the universe for decades, but ...

Ring galaxies and polar-ring galaxies offer natural laboratories for investigating how dynamical processes shape star formation. In collisional ring systems, a near head-on encounter launches a ...