New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...

I’ve spent much of my long life studying — and trying to understand — the history of the universe. Along the way, I have been constantly reminded that science is essentially international: Science ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of the active galactic center in spiral galaxy UGC 11397, located in the ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...