Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...

A stronomers from the Australian National University (ANU) have unveiled a ground-breaking discovery of binary stars in the ...

The composer and playwright just received the coveted grant. On a visit to the Hayden Planetarium—which includes a video ...

On this day in science history Sept. 17, 1999: Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Space is big, and ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

RBM Vintage Images / Alamy Stock Photo “Finding the scale of the universe and our Milky Way’s place in it was a fundamental .

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning images of Sagittarius B2, a massive star-forming region near the Milky Way galaxy’s center.

A vast river of neutral hydrogen bridges two galaxies that are beginning to enter the monstrous Virgo Cluster, and this structure is helping astronomers better understand our Milky Way's relationship ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...