It’s not always easy to see the night sky in the city, but the Adler Planetarium’s Doane Observatory offers Chicagoans a rare ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

Astronomers may have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of forming inside a uniquely shaped galaxy. Astronomers ...

The very first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than scientists thought — potentially explaining why we can't ...

Astronomers have spotted two massive galaxies locked in a cosmic tug-of-war 700 million light-years from Earth — and for the ...

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

Astronomers discover a rare “jellyfish” galaxy with the Webb telescope, whose bright trail reveals how stars are born when ...

Across the cosmos, heavier galaxies tend to host heavier black holes, a pattern known as the M–σ relation. But the Cosmic ...

In a groundbreaking studypublished in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers have uncovered a ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly? Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains ...

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Instead, COSMOS-AzTEC-1 has a runaway star-formation rate over 1000 times that of our Milky Way galaxy, and Tadaki's team estimates it will run out of gas in just 100 million years.