With the moon reaching its last quarter phase on Saturday, May 9, a window on the universe beyond the Milky Way opens. Here’s ...

Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Puzzlingly, supermassive black ...

An international team of astronomers has analyzed the data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Atacama Large ...

Unlike active galactic nuclei (AGN) that emit lethal levels of X-ray radiation, the centers of the Milky Way and these little ...

The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 36 years of incredible discoveries, stunning imagery, and a lasting impact on astronomy ...

Early universe winds: JWST detected extreme quasar-driven gas outflows in galaxies just one billion years after the Big Bang. Star formation halted: These winds likely removed star-forming gas, ...

The Vela Supercluster, in our Milky Way's Zone of Avoidance, is competing gravitationally with other superclusters for the ...

Scientists found one of the earliest known slow-spinning galaxies, challenging long-standing ideas about how massive galaxies ...

A massive cosmic milestone has just been reached: scientists have completed the largest high-resolution 3D map of the ...

Extreme early winds: JWST spotted quasar-driven winds up to 5,000 miles per second, capable of removing star-forming gas from early galaxies. Rarer over time: These extreme outflows were four times ...

Early galaxies were star-forming machines, furiously gobbling up gas and spitting out stars. A new model helps explain why ...