There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

Princeton University graduate student Jiaxuan Li (李嘉轩) was part of a team seeking dwarf galaxies orbiting the spiral galaxy ...

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...