New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The size of the Solar System and the Universe is truly beyond our comprehension. When we think of the vastness of space, we ...

There’s a new ‘bonus’ tax deduction worth $6,000 for older taxpayers — here’s who qualifies ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

A proposed satellite mission aims to orbit the far side of the Moon to detect faint radio signals from the universe’s cosmic ...

This stunning image dubbed 'Cosmic Owl' captures a remarkable moment in deep space, billions of light years away.