A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of ...

For decades, astrochemists have been looking for sulfur atoms in space and finding surprisingly little of the element that is ...

An international team of astronomers has identified the earliest black hole ever confirmed, an ancient behemoth that existed ...

It would orbit within Alpha Centauri A’s habitable zone, the starlight-bathed region where liquid water can persist on a ...

Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy ...

It may be the most massive black hole ever found. 36 billion times larger than the mass of our Sun, it was previously hidden ...

The rate of human-produced light is increasing in the night sky by as much as 10% per year, making it difficult for ...

Scientists may have found the hiding place of missing cosmic sulfur—in icy space dust, bound in crown-shaped and chain-like molecules that escape detection. For years, scientists studying the ...

Astronomers have discovered what could be the biggest known black hole in the universe. The gargantuan black hole, around 36 ...

Some astronomers think one set of measurements or the other will turn out to be wrong. Others believe that the tension is a hint of deeper problems with the scientific description of the universe, ...

Astronomers have uncovered what may be the most massive black hole ever found, 36 billion times the mass of our Sun, hidden ...

A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them ...