In a groundbreaking discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has presented data that directly challenges our current ...

A cottage industry has sprung up among astronomy enthusiasts to give a clever ... and so I had the honor of naming one deep-sky object in a universe filled with thousands of good targets.

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Investigations into the unknowns of space and time -- and abstract questions around early universe cosmology relating to the ...

The Very Large Array is one of the largest telescopes on Earth and a remarkable achievement in science and engineering.

A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up ...

Astrophysical explosions, encompassing events like supernovae and black hole consumptions, are becoming increasingly ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

For nearly 10 years we’ve been operating in a search mode, and any day we could make a discovery,” said Gray Rybka, a ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...