As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...

The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...