Starlink satellites have been developed by SpaceX to provide internet to remote locations. Here we explore the controversial ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

Gov. Josh Green is pledging to help “promptly” establish a procedure to permit construction of a controversial telescope atop Mauna Kea on a site previously developed for observatory use.

Astronomers at the Palomar Observatory of the California Institute of Technology have recorded the most powerful radiation ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has dismissed tech billionaire Elon Musk's claim that the mysterious interstellar object 'Oumuamua may be made of nickel, arguing that 'there is no observational ...

Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson ...

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 ...

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

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

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