This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years ...

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest objects ever detected in space. The arc was discovered near the galaxy cluster ...

A distant galaxy, invisible for billions of years, has reappeared in a surprising form thanks to a rare cosmic illusion ...

Discover interesting facts about what black holes are, how they form and what would happen if you fell into one.

Scientists observe rare light bursts from the Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A, offering new insights into black holes ...

Astronomers gain a greater understanding of black hole singularity. Experimental evidence for a finite core could illuminate quantum gravity.

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant ...

The telescope launched in March 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. NASA believes SPHEREx could complement the famous Hubble and James Webb space ...

Thirty-five years ago, in April of 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Since then, NASA reports that Hubble has made “nearly 1.7 million ...

An international team of astronomers using the Einstein Probe reports the discovery of a new peculiar fast-evolving ...