Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...

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

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

One fascinating discovery was the detection of vast clouds of gas extending far beyond the main star-forming regions. These ...

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

Six years ago, a Dutch-led telescope on the Chinese Chang’e-4 demonstrated that it is possible to do radio astronomy from ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...