“We were looking to answer, ‘How do dark matter and dark energy shape the universe we live in?’” said David Silva, UTSA ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the very first solid particles forming around a baby sun-like star, HOPS-315, over 1,300 light-years away. Using Nasa’s James Webb Telescope and ALMA in ...

A mysterious black hole spotted between two galaxies that are crashing into each other is challenging existing theories on how these powerful cosmic objects are formed. Researchers behind the study ...

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The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda galaxy. Zoom in and explore.

Answers to those questions could come from a telescope with the world’s largest digital camera, a project with initial ...

It’s a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born,” said Melissa McClure of Leiden Observatory ...

Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal ...

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

A paper published this week by doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, probably shrinks the number of ...

"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...