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 ...

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 ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he has decided to nominate Jared Isaacman to serve as his NASA ...

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the ...

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

Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...