Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

Venus is very bright right now and can be seen with the naked eye just after sunset. Using a telescope, backyard astronomers ...

The astronomers detected 44 stars in the "Dragon Arc" galaxy, located 6.5 billion light years away from our own Milky Way, using NASA's ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope. However ...

For example, during an explosive space battle scene in Star Trek, a crew member is tossed out into space and suddenly into ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

They are objects so massive they warp space and time to a point that even light cannot escape their pull, making them invisible. In the past, astronomers have found them by using X-ray and radio ...

A team of astronomers from England used that farthest point to determine that the diameter of the Milky Way is 1.9 million light-years ... found its far edge.Using nearby galaxies as a guide ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Scientists have observed a previously inactive supermassive black hole producing regular, powerful X-ray eruptions that ...