The Star Wars franchise famously takes place in a galaxy far, far away, but does Earth factor into things? We have an answer ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

For most of its journey 3I/ATLAS has been frozen solid, but the warming rays of our Sun are enough to unfreeze some of its gases such as carbon dioxide, generating a faint cometary tail. For a period ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...