The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

Light from the spiral galaxy UGC 11397 in Lyra took 250 million years to reach Hubble, capturing a glimpse of the distant ...

A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the ...

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...