Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

An enormously detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy has just been published by a team of astronomers led by Vatican ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

We might think that the artists of the Annunciation Triptych are offering us an extremely literal illustration. It’s as if ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

The new Webb observations involve a supermassive black hole called LID-568 that existed when the cosmos was about 11% its current age - about 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang event 13.8 billion ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Astronomers have discovered a "dead star" neutron star is spinning at an incredible 716 times a second, making it the joint fastest-spinning cosmic body ever seen. Not only this, but the neutron ...

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