Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years ...

Dubbed 'Porphyrion' after a mythological Greek giant, this immense structure originated when the universe was just 6.3 ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

A mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years dubbed FRB ...

Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation. How do environmental factors affect the star ...

Supermassive black holes, with masses more than a million times that of our sun, are among the most fascinating and ...

Supermassive black holes, celestial objects with masses greater than a million times that of the Sun, remain one of the ...

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space— so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor, Andromeda. Planet Earth is located in one ...

A GROUNDBREAKING new model shows how present-day countries formed as land rearranged itself nearly 2 billion years ago. The scientific theory of plate tectonics strives to explain how mountains, ...

FOR NOW, REPORTI Boeing's uncrewed Starliner capsule made its way to Earth with a successful landing in New Mexico early Saturday morning. On Friday, the uncrewed spacecraft undocked from the ...

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is a vast halo that surrounds galaxies, containing about 70% of a galaxy's visible mass. Despite its significant presence in the universe, little is known about the ...

The focus of their study was the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way ... our galaxy’s dynamic history.” Sgr A* is not just any old celestial entity. It is perched at the center of ...