Beneath a breathtaking full Moon, construction on the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope—the ELT—progresses in ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...

Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy ...

In a breathtaking new photograph shared by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the sun rises behind the Extremely Large ...

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found exciting new clues suggesting that a supermassive black hole may be hiding at the center of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 83 (M83), also ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes.

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Photons coming from the realm that recently landed on the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors existed ... is still expanding in the wake of the Big Bang, so everything is still getting farther ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.