At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

The McDonald Observatory director Taft Armandroff of The University of Texas at Austin will lead the next phase of ...

Located only 56 million light-years away in Ursa Major, NGC 4102 gives astronomers a nearby target to study how these active ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object with mass pulls on every other object—a result that explained falling ...

MARTINTON, Ill. (WAND) - It was a close call for firefighters in Martinton, Illinois, on Wednesday after a grain bin elevator suddenly collapsed right by them. The incident was caught on video.