New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

Hubble observes Galactic Encounter: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured the effects of a near-collision ...

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

Scientists uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are inconsistent with observational ...

The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a trio of ultra-massive galaxies, each nearly as ...

The JWST’s FRESCO program, developed by the team, systematically analyzed emission-line galaxies from the dawn of the ...

Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.