The Hubble Space Telescope has been quietly orbiting Earth for decades, but it’s still one of the most valuable tools […] ...

The University of Innsbruck is coordinating a new FWF special research area on the dark universe, which seeks answers to the ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

Astronomers watched as a black hole whipped up cosmic winds that shot material into space at 37,280 miles per second (60,000 ...

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

Scientists believe that the universe on very large scales is made of a network-like distribution of galaxies, gas and dark ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...