A groundbreaking discovery has rocked the astronomical community: a mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves has reached ...

Two mighty beams of energy have been detected shooting in opposite directions from a supermassive black hole inside a distant ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in 2027, aims to capture high-resolution images of galaxies and cosmic ...

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...

The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at a distant zone dubbed the "Extreme Outer Galaxy," and zoomed ...

Thus far, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has used strategies based on classical science—listening for ...

NGC 3312 is located front and center in the new image, surrounded by bright stars and galaxies. A smudge of interstellar material can be seen at the lower right of the galaxy, suggesting it is being ...

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole starving its galaxy of gas, halting star formation in the early universe.

The study suggests Sagittarius A* likely formed through a merger with another black hole, explaining its spin and ...

From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

Exoplanets in binary star systems usually orbit both stars, but astronomers have now spotted three planets orbiting one or ...