A black hole 30 million times the mass of the sun has produced winds one-fifth the speed of light, stunning scientists.

The 11th day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a new view of the heart of a nearby spiral galaxy.

Just 3,000 light-years from Earth is a black hole visible to the naked eye. Thankfully, we are a safe distance from this ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas ...

This week, NASA revealed that one of its spacecraft currently in orbit around Mars has inexplicably lost signal due to an "anomaly." ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Astronomers detect strong evidence of an atmosphere on ultra-hot TOI-561 b, a low-density rocky planet circling a star older ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.