Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Hubble unexpectedly finds double quasar: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a pair of quasars ...

Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...

In the constellation Dorado, 49 million light-years from Earth, the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 has been imaged by the NASA ...

(NASA) – This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado.

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CI Lab. Astrophysicists have observed an extraordinary event following the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...