New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) captures a tiny patch of sky in the Fornax constellation, revealing thousands of galaxies, some over 13 billion years old. This Hubble image captures HH111, a rare ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a large black hole inside the neighbouring ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

High-energy particles rain down on Earth constantly, but scientists have now detected a doozy: a neutrino blasting in from ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

forming a structure called a collisional ring galaxy. All previously known examples of these structures have had up to three ...