The waning Moon passes Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury before dawn, while Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the sky this week.

Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.

The newly confirmed supermassive black hole at the heart of CAPERS-LRD-z9 is known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

One of the best places to study stars is inside "open clusters," which are groups of stars that formed together from the same ...

The center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of the most fascinating and luminous regions in the universe, even though it houses a supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A*. This video ...

Newly identified Midpoint cloud reveals rare insight into star formation and the movement of galactic material toward the center of the Milky Way. A group of astronomers from around the world has ...

Big Cypress National Preserve is home to Alligator Alcatraz, which is causing light pollution in one of the first dark skies ...

Northwest Washington’s North Cascades National Park was recently named one of the best stargazing destinations in the country by astrology website TarotCards.io. Two other Washington spots made the ...

In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns—10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way —has been discovered around 5 billion light-years from Earth. It may be the ...