Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, using light that has traveled billions of years to reach us, they get one ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that suggests black holes or cosmic collisions energize galaxies.

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

Scientists with the global Event Horizon Telescope project have learned new secrets about the black hole at the center of our Milky Way, with the help of high-throughput computing advances ...

Astronomers in Hawaii have discovered a new kind of explosion, and they’re the most energetic stellar explosions ever recorded.

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Scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter.