A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has ushered in an exciting new era of astronomy, unveiling galaxies that existed in the very early Universe. Among the most intriguing of its discoveries are the ...

The largest of three newly found ring shaped structures in the cosmos are almost a million light-years across.

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

On Oct. 13, 1773, a French astronomer named Charles Messier discovered the "whirlpool galaxy," also known as Messier 51, or ...

Astronomy James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — Space photo of the week Astronomy Scientists capture bridge of stray stars being sucked from one ...

With the advent of commercial spaceflight, an increasing number of people may be heading into space in the coming years. Some ...