Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

The Milky Way contains hundreds of billions of stars and potentially billions of habitable planets. Yet we see no evidence of alien civilizations. This contradiction is known as the Fermi Paradox.

“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...

Min Read Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has a "back catalog" of cosmic ...

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

New Hubble observations explain how blue straggler stars form, showing that binary systems in low-density clusters play a key role ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), in collaboration with astrophysicists from the ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has been used, by international astronomers, to solve a “cosmic mystery”. Located ...