Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James ...

The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...

In smaller dark stars, when their dark matter runs out, normal nuclear fusion can begin, and they gradually become normal ...

A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to search data from a NASA space telescope for objects such as black holes.

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current ...