By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe is even more challenging." ...

In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...

Researchers at MSU found that H₃⁺ can form in unexpected ways. They studied molecules hit by high-energy light.

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

Neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles that can travel in a straight line for billions of light-years, passing unhindered ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...