Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would ...

From the mysterious pillars of creation to the mesmerizing images of the deep universe, check out these 7 rare discoveries ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Dark matter is an essential element of galaxy formation and physics, according to the standard theory of how the universe ...

LID-568 was discovered by a cross-institutional team of astronomers led by International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab ...

“Astronomers invented dark matter to explain how you get from a very smooth early universe to big galaxies with lots of empty ...