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

A galaxy spotted just 330 million years after the Big Bang has been implicated in bringing light to the choking dark of the ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the largest astronomical project in existence — astronomers were able to peel ...

"We report the discovery of one of the most distant galaxies known to date," astrophysicist Joris Witstok told Newsweek.

New observations have revealed early signs of UV light illuminating the cosmos more than 13 billion years ago.

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.

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

That could change if a gas cloud, star, or even a small dwarf galaxy were to be accreted (effectively eaten ... supports ...

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

The image of the amazing light show, that looks like a tornado in the stars, combines observations from two different cameras ...