Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found ...

Lior Shamir, a computer scientist in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, published a study of ...

Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian have found compelling evidence of the nearest ...

Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light Feb. 18, 2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk ...

Is it possible that dark matter, which makes up 85% of the cosmic matter budget, is simply a collection of primordial black ...

This week, based on a genetic study, researchers issued a recommendation that bison in Yellowstone National Park should be ...