NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a trio of young stars in the process of becoming their best selves in the ...

By studying how light from eight distant quasars is gravitationally lensed as it propagates towards Earth, astronomers have ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt's Lazuli, the first private space telescope in history, could fly to space as soon as 2029.

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope supports the existence of a supermassive black hole moving at 2.2 million mph, leaving behind a trail of stars and gas, researchers report.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a barred spiral galaxy that formed when the universe was only two billion years old ...

Far beyond the bright pinwheels and glowing nebulae that dominate space photography, astronomers have finally confirmed ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some amazing visuals that show us multiple galaxies and the activity of stars ...

Astronomers have identified an unusual cosmic object that appears to be a galaxy in name only, composed almost entirely of dark matter and lacking the stars that typically define such systems.

This artist’s rendering illustrates a precessing jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy VV ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

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