You’re looking at the cosmic neighborhood of the Milky Way. Travel beyond the dark matter halo into intergalactic space and meet the 59+ dwarf galaxies already orbiting our own. Discover the fate of ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

To astronomers, Segue 1 barely qualifies as a galaxy at first glance. It’s dim, fragile, and so sparsely populated with stars ...

Black holes keep showing up in the news. Scientists have recorded the space ripples from their violent crashes and even ...

Physicists using near-absolute-zero detectors have reached unprecedented sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. A ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...