Results of the 14th annual Cool Science Image Contest were announced on Wednesday with winners selected from a pool of entries that include University of Wisconsin faculty, professors and students.

A mathematics undergraduate took first place alongside other winners of the college’s 2025 contest. Top Prize Editor’s Choice by Caleb Chalmers, Mathematics Undergraduate Program Each year, the ...

Ph.D. student Maile Marriott’s submission illustrates the complexities of the “space weather” generated by our sun. Top Prize Editor’s Choice by Maile Marriott, Physics Graduate Program Each year, the ...

While scientists discovered the Cosmic Vine using the James Webb Space Telescope, they have yet to find a string of galaxies linked together.

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The Centenary Institute has announced the winner of its When Art Meets Science competition, showcasing the intersection between ground-breaking medical research and visually stunning images. You can ...

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The story behind the beautiful pictures beamed back to Earth from the Artemis II astronauts.

Physicists have been confident since the1980s that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, similar to those thought to be at the center of most spiral and elliptical ...

NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data to help scientists discover and study exciting new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar ...

It is the computational processing of images that reveals the finest details of a sample placed under all kinds of different light microscopes. Even though this processing has come a long way, there ...

A mysterious detail hidden inside one of the world's most famous religious images may defy conventional explanation, proving it might just be a miracle. Scientists analyzing the Tilma of Guadalupe, a ...