For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

One researcher’s analysis of Webb Space Telescope images could indicate that we’re all stuck in a black hole, according to ...

Scientists have discovered an extraordinarily massive black hole weighing an astounding 36 billion solar masses, challenging ...

Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist ...

Astronomy lovers in America will be treated to a great show in this month. In the early morning of March 14, a total lunar ...

Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found the dimmest and smallest satellite galaxy yet—Andromeda XXXV—forcing them ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...