This discovery may reveal how the earliest black holes grew into supermassive giants Halloween may be unique to Earth, but the cosmos sure offers up some great decorations for this time of year.

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...

NASA said Friday the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a "spider galaxy" called UGC 5829 that's about 30 million light-years from Earth. Photo courtesy of NASA March 22 (UPI) --NASA said Friday the ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered the oldest known black hole in the universe. Nestled within a glowing red galaxy, it dates back 13 billion years and provides a ...

Astronomers have dedicated whole careers trying to understand our Milky Way galaxy — like how does it all work? How did it form from the infinite cosmos? What if we could ask the Milky Way itself — ...

They travel through space, and they've puzzled astronomers since they were first discovered just over decade ago. They're called fast radio bursts, and thanks to a team of Canadian scientists, a new ...

Scientists, including a researcher at the University of British Columbia, are challenging our current understanding of how galaxies form by unveiling pictures of a young galaxy in the early life of ...