"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Earth and the surrounding Milky Way galaxy may be sitting inside a cosmic void—a "mysterious giant hole"—that could be ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...