For two decades, astronomers have wondered how supermassive black holes could exist less than a billion years after the Big ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to search data from a NASA space telescope for objects such as black holes.

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.