In popular imagination and in science fiction, black holes are places of intense gravity, kind of like cosmic vacuum cleaners ...

Out of all the matter in the universe, only 4% of the universe’s mass is currently understood — leaving 96% to be further ...

A supermassive black hole, ULAS J1120+0641, outgrows its galaxy and disrupts the cosmic balance, revealing a mystery of the ...

By tracking individual stars and exploding supernovas, astronomers discovered the strength of early ultraviolet glow ...

Giant “interstellar glaciers” of water ice have been mapped across the Milky Way by NASA’s SPHEREx telescope, possibly laying ...

Astronomers have discovered the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, revealing that most new stars form within 40,000 ...

New observations and simulations by a team of researchers led by MPE reveal that a massive binary star near our galaxy's ...

Nearly 30 years ago, Hubble looked at the Trifid Nebula. To celebrate the upcoming 36th anniversary of the telescope's launch ...

Prices at the pump are soaring but is it enough to get people out of their cars and into public transit to save money?

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies – tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way – have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new study published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...

That uncertainty has made one question especially stubborn for astronomers: where does the galaxy’s star-forming disc ...

A former New York druggie is suing Amazon over brain cells he killed doing whip-its for years — claiming the company knew the ...