Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Infrared observations help astronomers uncover hundreds of obscured supermassive black holes, reshaping cosmic understanding.

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Recent research suggests that supermassive black holes' spin rates, linked to their formation history, indicate growth ...

Indian American astrophysicist at Yale wins the prestigious prize for her path-breaking research focused on the invisible ...

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way. For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered ...

For many years NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, were the only spacefaring entities in the world. The Chinese ...