How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

Moons are locked in orbit around planets. Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around ...

If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

Launching by 2025, NASA’s SPHEREx mission will map hundreds of millions of galaxies in 102 infrared colors to investigate the ...

SPHEREx will explore the universe in 102 infrared colors, providing unprecedented insights into cosmic origins.

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission won't be the first space telescope to observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies when it ...

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, an ESA (European Space Agency ... Space Telescope assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe – among the most ...