The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a galaxy, the observatory announced on Jan. 8.

Astronomers may have discovered a previously unknown type of astronomical object, nicknamed “Cloud-9,” that could shed light ...

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail every second.

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

The researchers describe Cloud-9 as a failed galaxy, a "relic" or remnant of the processes that gave rise to early galaxies. Alejandro Benitez-Llambay suggested that the ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

We are going to be getting a lot of exciting new information about galaxies in 2026, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who can't ...