Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

The University of California San Diego is positioning itself as a leader in astronomical research as its new Department of ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the universe. Before that, astronomy depended on observations of light in all its ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter ...

Organic molecules – including amino acids absent in known biology – salts, and nucleotides were found in the historic ...