Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old as time itself.

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

A Canadian-led team of researchers has discovered a 'baby' galaxy cluster in the early universe surrounded by gas far hotter ...

A USF professor and research team are using two NASA grants and the Hubble Space Telescope to test the mathematical model of ...

New paper led by UC Santa Cruz undergraduate suggests that long-dormant galaxies deemed to be dead may actually be stunted by ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a galaxy, the observatory announced on Jan. 8.

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...