"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

It’s a woman’s world at the box office as “Avengers” star Scarlett Johansson has become the top-grossing star according to ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Researchers analysing Webb Telescope data recently found a rare galactic duo. Together, the galaxies form an owl-like structure about 11 billion light-years away.

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals the discovery of the most distant ...