Expansion of the universe had already been anticipated by theorists. In the early 1920s, Alexander Friedmann and Georges ...

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least ...

Researchers have discovered an extraordinarily aligned gravitational lens system, dubbed the Carousel Lens, that involves a ...

The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end ...

XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years away. This material gradually moved inwards to a distance of around 0.001 ...

The Love’s Planetarium, which opened Friday, is the only one of its caliber in North America. With its eight 4K projectors ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The jets shooting out from an enormous black hole are larger than was thought theoretically possible, and may change ideas about how galaxies developed. This pair are the longest, and therefore most ...

Astronomers have discovered that, in general, the further away a galaxy is, the more red shifted its light is ... shift data provides evidence that the Universe, including space itself, is ...

MIT scientists say that dark energy could be the missing factor that explains some of the most perplexing phenomena in the ...

After years of reaching for the stars, supporters at Science Museum Oklahoma finally saw them align with the opening of the ...

The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1559. It is a barred spiral galaxy ...