Supermassive black holes are often described as cosmic monsters that consume anything in their path. But new research ...

What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

Chicxulub marks the site of the asteroid impact that abruptly ended the age of dinosaurs. Striking Earth with unimaginable ...

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it vanished. Even stranger, another bright object appeared nearby. After studying ...

In a landmark discovery that bridges nearly a century of theoretical physics, a Chinese research team has successfully ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking ...

In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in a merger, and all three of their central supermassive black holes are ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University have found a young galaxy cluster that appears far ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...