Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

A massive, rotating disk galaxy designated DLA0817g and nicknamed the "Wolfe Disk," formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. It was discovered using ALMA, the Atacama Large ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

The black hole, named RACS J0320-35, is about a billion times heavier than the Sun. It lies 12.8 billion light years from ...

When most people imagine the vastness of space, they picture a dark void with plenty of observable objects. Planets, stars, and other galaxies often come to mind when picturing what space actually ...

Marvel and DC have buried the hatchet, and crossing over for the first time in two decades, leading an MCU icon straight to the Green Lantern Corps.

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The KM3NeT underwater telescope detects a record-breaking neutrino of hundreds of PeV, marking the beginning of a new era.

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