A new 5.6-trillion-pixel map could help scientists study billions of objects across the universe in greater detail.

The body is the size of the entire solar system and glows with a brilliant red light billions of light years from Earth ...

Astronomers in a groundbreaking discovery identified an unprecedented astronomical phenomenon-a black hole star that is the size of the entire solar system emitting a brilliant red light.

Little red dots have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data from the universe's deep past. Their "powering engines" might resemble a newly discovered ...

Astronomers have nearly doubled the number of known cosmic X-ray sources, offering the most comprehensive public view yet of the universe's hottest and most energetic objects. The ...

Some black holes roaming the Universe today may actually be older than the Big Bang. A new cosmic “bounce” model suggests the ...

Within the constellation Aquila in the northern skies, a powerful cosmic accelerator has been pumping out fast-moving ...

The Universe is full of things that seem to ignore common sense. Some are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mysterious object found deep in the cosmos could soon have astronomers rethinking what they know about dark matter. That's ...

Astronomers have found the earliest example of a black hole rapidly bulking up in the universe — and it may finally resolve a long‑running cosmic dilemma. The object appears just 660 million years ...

New three-dimensional (3D) models of objects in space have been released by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. These 3D models allow people to explore—and print—examples of stars in the early and end ...

Astronomers have released the largest two-dimensional map of the universe ever created.