For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years ...

“This galaxy was developing bars 2 billion years after the birth of the universe," Daniel Ivanov, a graduate researcher at ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captures stunning views of ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

The Virgo cluster, despite being millions of light-years away, closest large galaxy cluster to Earth. The Virgo galaxy ...

Do all stars exist in galaxies, or do some exist in intergalactic space?Thomas GriffilthAtlantic City, New Jersey Nearly all ...

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified an entirely new type of cosmic object. It is a cloud rich ...

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...