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

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Mauna Kea protests are gaining star power as Native Hawaiian groups continue to block construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. Astronomers want to build a telescope they say would change the ...

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

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

The Dark Energy Survey catalogued 669 million galaxies, using 140 million for precise measurements to help understand why the universe's expansion is accelerating rather than slowing down.