NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) surprised astronomers once again with the visual of a unique supernova. The telescope's near-infrared images located a supernova that exploded when the ...

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound psychological impact upon us ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

A flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds of more than 37,000 miles per SECOND, reveals new research. X-ray space ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

These gigantic structures, which contain hundreds or even thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, offer important ...

Tyson’s ultimate goal was to image large swathes of the sky, measuring how galaxies’ shapes distorted as their light ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

The universe’s expansion rate was supposed to be a solved problem, yet the latest high precision map of the early cosmos has ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...