Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

The galaxy’s heart hides a cosmic giant that shouldn’t exist so soon after the Big Bang but could explain the mysterious ...

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

Bizarre NASA discoveries that we’re not allowed to talk about (but we will) Space exploration consistently reveals phenomena ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" in the early universe could be a new space object.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

The black hole appears to be growing at about 2.4 times the Eddington limit, which means it is consuming the equivalent of ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found to be much more powerful than gamma-ray bursts, called extreme nuclear ...

Astronomers may have figured out where the mysterious blobs embedded in Mars' mantle originated.

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...