Dark matter plays a crucial role in galaxy formation by acting as a gravitational “glue” that helps pull gas together to form ...

This image illustrates the 9-point Bortle scale, which quantifies the impact of light pollution on the darkness of a night ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

A team of researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover 12 ancient black holes from 12.9 billion years ago ...

When we look up at the night sky, most of us see stars, most of which are relatively close: less than 5,000 light-years from Earth. (The word “relatively” is a necessary qualifier, as a light-year is ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope detect a faint smudge that may be the first galaxy, or a nearby impostor, named ...

Astronomers have studied the merger of galaxies NGC 5713 and NGC 5719 to understand the future collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda. The stud ...

In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing—the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will ...

Research from both countries has contributed to major findings on Mars. Amid US funding cuts, the time may be ripe to join forces Are we alone in the universe? That has been the age-old question to ...