In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the ...

In the modern universe, supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies and their host galaxies grow together. But this ...

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

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...

New measurements show that the expansion rate of the universe is faster than can be explained by our current understanding of ...

Learn about the thermal light echo, observed by NASA, that causes intricate layers of interstellar gas and dust to emit an ...

Elon Musk’s space company was conducting the seventh flight of its Starship vehicle.

The Institute of Geophysics, Space Science, and Astronomy at Addis Ababa University have been engaged in promising ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.