But the supermassive black hole lurking at the core of NGC 3783 is 30 million times the mass of our humble sun, and the ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Using a powerful combination of space-based measurements and Subaru’s advanced imaging, astronomers have discovered two rare companions, one of which enables a key test for NASA’s Roman Space ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Astronomers have discovered a beautiful, well-formed spiral galaxy from a time when the universe was still very young—only ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...