Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has been finding unusually bright galaxies in the early cosmos. Now there is ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

Black holes are the universe’s shadowy figures, with many millions of them roaming unseen in our galaxy alone. These cosmic ...

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...

Just in time for Halloween, two black holes are in the news.

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

A galaxy cluster bends light from seven background galaxies around it, letting astronomers peer into space and time ...

“Take Me to Your Moon: Journeys into the World of Dementia” stars ceramic sculptor Tenyoh, who says that “the course of ...