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

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) once seemed like a fantastical construct of science fiction, enabling characters to deploy ...

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

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 ...

Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding universe transformed cosmology, revealing countless galaxies and laying the ...

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...

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