A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Images from ALMA telescope provide insight to the earlier years of our universe.

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from “fluffy” molecular clouds.

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars.

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around above ...

According to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists ...

Hunting for alien civilizations isn't a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it's the business of combing ...

The Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is an unstoppable cosmic firework show, flaring with wild bursts of ...

At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* is never at rest. Using NASA’s James Webb ...