Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

Edwin Hubble's discovery of the expanding universe transformed cosmology, revealing countless galaxies and laying the ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...