The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

The universe contains roughly 2 trillion galaxies and countless mysteries, including dark matter, supermassive black holes, the nature of time, and the absence of observable aliens.

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha ...

Researchers from a university in Southampton are amongst the first to use a powerful new telescope to reshape our view of the universe as we know it.

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us understand how many Earth-like planets there are, too.

Our solar system and galaxy were the first objects of study for what was going on in the universe. Among the various ...

On October 18, 2025, the 4MOST telescope facility in Chile captured its first light, marking the start of its scientific ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

Researchers have moved one step closer to solving one of science’s greatest mysteries—why the universe is filled with matter instead of nothing. Scientists at Indiana University have made a major ...