On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with ...

NSF NOIRLab has begun the New Year by unveiling a remarkable deep-space image of the Antlia Cluster, including hundreds of ...

Every day, several times a day, massive explosions of radio waves burst forth from distant corners of the universe, each ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...

New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope contradict traditional theories about early galaxy formation, revealing ...

The Quadrantids might be one of the strongest showers this year, but poor weather could make them difficult to see.

NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...