Astronomers have found early evidence of the Universe’s transformation from a foggy, opaque state to a transparent one, ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

For now, researchers think the light might be coming from the first stars to exist, or outflows from a supermassive black ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

NGC 4941 dazzles in a new Hubble image, showcasing star-forming regions and a supermassive black hole that dramatically ...

A whole universe of hidden galaxies lies just beyond what the eye can see. Thanks to a new generation of space telescopes, ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...