The James Webb Space Telescope has not only delivered awe-inspiring images - it’s rewriting cosmic history. From revealing ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show!

Researchers have zoomed in on the area surrounding the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy, and made ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer Lorena Hernández-García.

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously believed." ...

Venus is very bright right now and can be seen with the naked eye just after sunset. Using a telescope, backyard astronomers ...

Up until recently, astronomy was reliant entirely on electromagnetic waves. While that changed with the confirmation of ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...