With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

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

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Supermassive black holes are one of the universe’s greatest mysteries, however scientists continue to chip away at their ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

Black holes are already among the most mysterious objects in the galaxy, and yet, one specific type has almost completely ...

Imagine dropping your phone into a campfire and later finding only a pile of ash. No serial number, no photos, no clue the ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a rare 'Cosmic Owl' structure, formed by two colliding ring galaxies, approximately 11 billion light-years away.

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