Astronomers have discovered a radio galaxy so powerful that it may have broken every previous record. Known as TXS 2354+015, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Revealing the Nature of the Ultra-Faint Galaxy LAP1-B through a Giant "Gravitational Lens" (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, CSA & K. Nakajima ...

At the heart of most large galaxies sits a supermassive black hole. They’re the most massive objects in the universe, ...

Astronomers are fascinated by new images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope that appear to show a smiley face in our vast universe.

A record-breaking fast radio burst travelled for more than 11 billion years to reach Earth. Scientists traced it to a ...

Some astronomical discoveries begin with powerful telescopes pointed at distant corners of the universe. Others begin much ...

Watch a video explaining how giant galaxies in the early universe might have formed. Video via Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the galaxies they ...

In the early days of the universe, our home looked very different from how it does today. Back then, the region in our ...

We believe that physical laws exist in the universe, and that matter was born and stars and galaxies were formed in ...

Are dark galaxies hiding in the nearby universe? When we look at the night sky, all the light we see – from planets to stars to nebulae and galaxies – comes from of ordinary matter. Yet astronomers ...

Exoplanet observations reveal that Earth-like rocky planets require a certain concentration of those heavier elements.

The light reaching JWST from LAP1-B began its trip about 13 billion years ago. By the time it arrived, it carried an unusually sparse chemical record. This points to a galaxy barely touched by earlier ...