Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers ...

A traveling black hole stalking the cosmos for stellar prey recently revealed itself by shredding a star in a radioactive ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

Despite weighing about a million times the mass of our sun, the black hole wasn't found at the center of its host galaxy, ...

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A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

The most recent measurement of a nearby galaxy cluster is deepening a disagreement about how fast the universe is expanding — ...

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured and amazing view of the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104). The galaxy is ...

SETI combines cutting-edge radio astronomy, data science, and planetary research in a global effort to detect signs of ...

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...