Astronomers using the Webb Telescope detect a faint smudge that may be the first galaxy, or a nearby impostor, named ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Recently, the astronomical community celebrated a groundbreaking discovery—scientists have observed a supermassive black hole ...

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

The discovery of these superclusters is a milestone in the history of astronomical observation. The galaxy's core is enveloped in thick cosmic dust, making it difficult for ordinary telescopes to ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...

Signals from the universe infancy is something that many people have tried to unveil, but it was only recently that someone ...

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...

This video shows the habitable zone around the star HD 20794 (in green) and the trajectory of the three planets in the system. Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more ...

A Christmas song list plays softly from the speaker on the mantle. The tree and the fireplace bathe the den in a warm glow. Out of nowhere, one of the grandchildren who has been watching too much ...