Galaxies

Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million…

Located 12 million light-years away and undergoing rapid star formation, edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is a…

Dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 is known to house an active central black hole. However, the question of how…

The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So…

Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed their final inspection of a key…

While probing the dawn of the universe for the origins of ancient galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope…

Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don’t know, but scientists have long thought it…

ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing a black hole and a quasar. For the first time, scientists…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team now is targeting as soon as early September 2026 for launch,…

It’s no question that supermassive black holes are cosmic big boys, reaching millions to billions of times the…

The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe