Scientists ultimately settled on a feeding black hole at the heart of a far-distant galaxy as the most likely engine for 3C 273’s ridiculous luminosity. In fact, by the 1980s astronomers were starting ...

Take an inside look at NGC 7456, a spiral galaxy that showcases energetic light, dark dust lanes, and the beauty of newborn ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made a groundbreaking discovery that could validate long-held assumptions about the early universe. The discovery, detailed in a recent ...

A distant galaxy appears to have more than a dozen tightly packed star-forming clumps arranged like a bunch of grapes — far more than astronomers thought possible in a galaxy from the early universe.

Astronomers have discovered a rogue intermediate mass black hole blasting out jets over 3,000 light-years from the heart of ...

You still may be able to spot the Milky Way's galactic center in the night sky across the US, but time is running out.