In a groundbreaking discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has presented data that directly challenges our current ...

Scientists have found the "hungriest" black hole that is "feasting" on matter faster than experts previously thought possible ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

The Very Large Array is one of the largest telescopes on Earth and a remarkable achievement in science and engineering.

Astrophysical explosions, encompassing events like supernovae and black hole consumptions, are becoming increasingly ...

A cottage industry has sprung up among astronomy enthusiasts to give a clever ... and so I had the honor of naming one deep-sky object in a universe filled with thousands of good targets.

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up ...

Investigations into the unknowns of space and time -- and abstract questions around early universe cosmology relating to the ...

For nearly 10 years we’ve been operating in a search mode, and any day we could make a discovery,” said Gray Rybka, a ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...