A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

Using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), an international team of astronomers have performed deep optical ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

NASA's TESS exoplanet hunter has found the fastest-disintegrating planet ever. Losing a moons-worth of matter every million ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Amateur astronomers who have purchased telescopes from leading suppliers in the U.S. may be entitled to a payment from a ...