UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

In the pursuit of space exploration, humans have broken records that were previously thought impossible. At the same time, terrible accidents have marred the history of space flight, making later ...

A supermassive black hole in the far reaches of the Universe has been found guzzling down material at one of the fastest rates ever seen.

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of ...

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No matter your areas of interest, it's likely your newsfeed, whichever one you may use, has been flooded recently with the opinions of so-called Harvard scientists that there's an alien spacecraft ...

The fastest-growing black hole in the universe is 34 billion times the mass of our sun and feasts on a meal the equivalent of our sun each day, according to a study. This massive, hungry black hole ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's origins. Scientists at the University of Missouri "looked deep into the universe ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...

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