The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Players who were online at the time could jump to the planetary system in question and behold the destruction of what’s been one of the big battlefields in the Galactic War that began back when ...

It's a dark day for Super Earth. In a completely unexpected, unpredictable turn of events, the black hole that's occupied Helldivers 2's galaxy for the better part of a year has collided with Angel's ...

Ultra-self-interacting dark matter clumped into supposedly enormous masses that collapsed in on themselves and created the supermassive black holes in these quasars. Scientists formulated a ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Many of those questions surround black holes. These things are a relatively recent discovery, and every day, we learn more ...

Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early ...