At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever observed, marking a major step forward in understanding the hidden forces that ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...

The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to hear from Kelsey Johnson, professor of astronomy and director of the Echols Scholars Program at the University of Virginia, at ...