Among a "field of galaxies;" the James Webb Space Telescope captured spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648, a billion light-years from ...

Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

For forty years, the “Standard Model” assumed dark matter must be cold. If it moved too fast (which would have made it hot), ...

To explain these observations, they proposed a new kind of energy that is responsible for driving the universe’s accelerated expansion: dark energy. Astrophysicists now believe dark energy makes up ...

A tremendously large cloud that blocked the light from a distant star has been found to consist of swirling winds of ...

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

A missing star in the Andromeda Galaxy has become a mystery to astronomers. This star suddenly vanished without any traces of ...

The astrophysicist was one of the first researchers to bring astronomy closer to the general public and to advocate the ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...