New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

While the black hole is small relative to its galaxy, it appears to have a profound influence on the shape of the galaxy.

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three massive galaxies from the early universe, revealing ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

Scientists at NASA have found two ‘monster' black holes ‘weirdly' interacting with gas in the centre of a galaxy.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

The professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who won this year’s Shaw ...

Scientists uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are inconsistent with observational ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as ...