A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...
The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...
Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...
Space is a big place and there's lots of strange stuff out there, but scientists aren't quite sure where these massive space ...
Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...
The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...
Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...
The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...
Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...
After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.