Using IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists identify hundreds of obscured black holes hidden behind gas and dust.

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

The six planets will be visible in the days immediately leading up to Jan. 21, and for about four weeks afterward. Mars, ...

Ever since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched, it’s been revealing more about the universe than even most ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a planet so extraordinary it has defied all existing ...