A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

About 60 per cent of the galaxies seemed to rotate clockwise. That contradicts the theory that galaxy rotations are random.