An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the cosmic ...

Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

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

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

One photographer put the age of starlight into perspective with stunning projections on some of Earth's oldest rock ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...