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

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 ...

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

Niba Audrey Nirmal: Host Emma Dauster: Writer Attabey Rodríguez Benítez: Script Editor Kyle Nackers: Fact Checker Bonnie ...

Discover how JWST's groundbreaking observations of the oldest galaxies reveal new insights into early galaxies discovery and transform our understanding of galaxy formation.

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...

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

The distant universe might be littered with supermassive stars between 1000 and 10,000 times the mass of the sun, which could ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid mission—designed to map the geometry of the dark universe with unprecedented ...

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 ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...