Webb captures merging galaxy pairs known as II ZW 96. It is located around 500 million light-years away from Earth. This ...

The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby stars. However the theory also suggests there is a limit to how big a black hole can grow due to accretion and certainly shouldn’t ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth. The dwarf galaxy is one ...

Greetings everyone and welcome to our planetary November skies. The sun set on Monday at 6:51 p.m., which is the earliest ...

Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope, have discovered that early galaxies are far larger and brighter than ...

A rendering of an asteroid floating in space That year, the IAU tasked a small committee with creating a working definition ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

An international team that includes the University of Bath in the UK has discovered three ultra-massive galaxies (‘Red ...

Heavy rain hit Italy's southern region of Sicily, causing cars to be swept out to sea and damaged homes. Italian fire ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

On 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet.

When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...