The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

RIT researchers will be co-investigators on nine of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 4 programs set to begin in early ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

In thelatest release from NASA, stunning new images of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) have captured the attention of the global ...

Scientists now say that thousands of tiny black holes could be whizzing through your home at this very moment.

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Webb discovered dozens of small, powerful galaxies from 800 million years ago that likely drove cosmic reionization by ...

However, with data from ESA's XMM-Newton and the Japan Space Agency's (JAXA) Suzaku X-ray space telescopes, astronomers have ...

A study led by the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that more than 75% of the baryonic matter in the cosmos is floating between galaxies, solving a decades-old mystery about the ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

A supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of a relatively close galaxy is firing off a rapid-fire slew of ultrafast gas "bullets" into the surrounding galaxy. This is the conclusion of an ...