An analysis of the afterglow of the big bang sheds light on how black holes distribute mass in the universe, and why some ...

A 50-million-light-year-long flow of hydrogen gas has been observed linking two tiny galaxies 50 million light-years away, ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

A computational model of the early-to-present-day Universe predicts that some of the first stars formed in structures that challenge conventional classification. Read the paper: The emergence of ...

What Apple is offering is a form of hands-free, real-time conversation across multiple languages. The Babel fish idea of ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that's hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, ...

The most distant and most powerful "odd radio circle" (ORC) known so far has been discovered by astronomers. These curious ...

In 1961 a single equation changed the way humanity thought about its place in the universe The Drake Equation set out to estimate how many civilizations might share our galaxy and started a scientific ...

At the heart of nearly every galaxy lurks a cosmic giant: a supermassive black hole. These mysterious objects, millions to billions of times more massive than our Sun, exert such powerful gravity that ...

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...