The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured, galaxies appear like fairly set areas with clear beginnings and endings. The reality, however, is not nearly as ...

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

This discovery presents challenges to the understanding of the early universe by providing evidence that could explain evolutionary history of black hole formations.

Launching by 2025, NASA’s SPHEREx mission will map hundreds of millions of galaxies in 102 infrared colors to investigate the ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

Over millions of years, NASA says the galaxies may dance by each other repeatedly. But, the galaxies’ cores and arms may also ...

Scientists assembled the first piece of the map, which includes 208 gigapixels, from 260 observations made between March 25 ...

The UK Astronomy Technology Centre has been tasked with developing the first scientific apparatus for the Extremely Large ...

Tracking quasars back to the early days of the universe, several hundred million years after the Big Bang, a cosmic conundrum ...

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

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