One other thing the Gaia data has been clarifying is that the Milky Way's disk is not serene and flat, but warped and ...

Researchers have recorded the largest and most distant black hole flare to date, and the numbers around it are pretty ...

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Astronomers have recently observed a planet being torn apart by its “zombie” white dwarf star, a phenomenon that challenges ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...

I Atlas challenges our understanding of comets with inverted jets and a hardened surface shaped by interstellar travel.

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

A ‘superflare’ 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun is confirmed as the record-holder for both luminosity and distance.

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

Scientists have documented the most energetic flare ever observed emanating from a supermassive black hole, a cataclysmic ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...