In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.

In an interview with ThePrint, physicist Yogendra Narain Srivastava discusses his radical new theory of black holes and a ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Photo taken on June 19, 2015 shows the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) at the Xinglong ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

Webb witnessed a highly ionised gas whose level of energy was too high to come from something like supernovae, making ...

About half of the non-dark matter in the universe cannot be accounted for by stars and galaxies alone. Now, scientists say ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

Hubble’s 35‑year celebration brings a vibrant reimagining of the Sombrero Galaxy, revealing hidden dust lanes and far‑flung ...

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble ...