The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

A brilliant star in our nearest galactic neighbor didn’t go out with a bang, it simply faded from sight, leaving scientists to piece together what could make something so massive vanish so quietly.

If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured. Jellyfish galaxies are named for the long, tentacle-like streams ...

Scientists scanning the heart of the Milky Way have spotted a tantalizing signal: a possible ultra-fast pulsar spinning every 8.19 milliseconds near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

A scientist has detailed the somewhat terrifying reality of what would someone would see or feel if they fell into a black ...

Our solar system may be the odd one out. Across the Milky Way, astronomers keep finding super-Earths, planets larger than our own but smaller than Neptune, in staggering numbers. They are the galaxy’s ...

Supermassive black holes, often considered the universe's most extreme objects, are now seen as cosmic predators that can slow star growth in galaxies millions of light-years ...