Astronomers have identified a rare cosmic phenomenon: a supermassive black hole, known as J0410−0139, located 12.9 billion ...

A groundbreaking survey in Nature Astronomy reveals a surprising consensus among scientists: the majority believe that alien ...

A team of astronomers led by David Sand, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory, has uncovered three faint and ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.

Astronomers have struggled with finding ultra-faint dwarf galaxies far enough from the Milky Way's influence, making these ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

For years, the estimated number of hidden supermassive black holes hovered around 15 percent. This still means tens if not ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

The competition is organized by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, England, in association with BBC Sky at Night ...