James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological scales. This could help to dismiss the possibility of a fifth fundamental force ...

Welcome to SolarBalls! This channel features entertaining space animations that help you learn about the solar system and the ...

The Universe may not have begun with a Big Bang, but instead with a Big Bounce, according to a new theory about how the Universe expands ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of ...

Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...

Deep within the confines of Germany’s prestigious Max Planck Institute, an elite team of astronomers hunch over observations from a long-dormant satellite, painstakingly piecing together a ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...