Scientists have detected the signal from two giant black holes interacting with a cloud of gas in the center of a galaxy for ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's ...

James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's latest and most advanced space observatory, has continued to capture breathtaking images ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...