A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s ...

Among the millions of galaxies that Euclid has documented are a suite of far-flung quasars, galaxies whose ... the light from that distant galaxy is warped around the foreground galaxy, as if ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

Hubble dimmed quasar 3C 273’s glare to reveal ghostly blobs and filaments near its core—evidence of galaxy cannibalism and ...

and chaos in the space around these black holes. Over time, it became clear that quasars weren’t just isolated beacons—they were deeply connected to their host galaxies and the universe’s ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole ... and how they affect the environment of space around them. Black holes are massive, astrophysical ...

Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

Active black holes have a pancake-shaped structure around them called an accretion disk, which contains hot, electrically charged gas. The plasma that makes up the accretion disk comes from farther ...