A black hole is more than just a region of space where nothing escapes. It can also become a powerful cosmic engine.

With the federal government cutting funds for research, scientific organizations are facing a budget crunch. This includes ...

The largest map of the universe, created with data from the James Webb Space Telescope, shows almost 800,000 galaxies crammed ...

One of the ENTs studied in this work, named Gaia18cdj, released 25 times more energy than the most powerful supernova on ...

In a new study, scientists have observed three supermassive black holes “feasting” on colossal stars, and releasing more ...

Astronomers captured the universe’s brightest, longest-lasting stellar explosions, where massive stars are torn apart by ...

The multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS releases the largest map of the universe, going back to almost the beginning of time ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has gifted us with some of the most stunning and detailed images of our universe. From distant galaxies and star-forming nebulae to colossal galaxy clusters, these ...

A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space telescope.

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.

Scientists have discovered the most powerful blasts of energy in the known universe. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients, or ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions seen since the Big Bang.