In NASA's latest survey, experts detected black holes hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust and others that are not.

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

The majority of our evidence for dark matter’s existence comes from observing visible (or baryonic) matter that does not ...

The science that was repulsive to an idea of religious belief thus began to embrace religious ideas culminating with the ...

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

According to NASA's SPHEREx mission details, the observatory will survey the entire sky using near-infrared light. Its goals include exploring how galaxies evolved, understanding the structure of the ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...