Stellar Stories Hera spacecraft launched The European Space Agency's Hxera spacecraft launched on October 7, initiating an ...

Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope aims to create the largest 3D map of the universe in the next six years. The ...

Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified early galaxies that shine unexpectedly brightly, suggesting ...

A new observation by astronomers could change everything we know about the early years of the universe. Scientists have detected a greedy low-mass supermassive black hole which is growing extremely ...

Earth is the only known place where humanity exists — where humanity can exist. It is the only known place where laughter, ...

Launching by 2025, NASA’s SPHEREx mission will map hundreds of millions of galaxies in 102 infrared colors to investigate the ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...

Tracking quasars back to the early days of the universe, several hundred million years after the Big Bang, a cosmic conundrum ...

But axions, as they are called, could constitute most of the matter in our universe, forming the unseen skeletons of galaxies ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...