Because of faults with Boeing’s Starliner, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore had to wait months for a ride back to Earth on a ...

The latest Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument results fall short of the discovery threshold but strengthen evidence for ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

This can happen in many ways, including the titanic explosion of a dying star or the collapse of primordial hydrogen into the supermassive black holes at the core of most large galaxies.

supermassive black holes—often found at the heart of galaxies—are astronomical objects with a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape it that are so large they can "shape ...

Villagers in Devon have been warned of a large cloud of black smoke resulting from a fire this evening. A blaze has broken out near Highampton and locals in the village have been advised to keep ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

NGC 2002 is an open star cluster that resides roughly 160,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. New and old stars alike twinkle in the ...