The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

A groundbreaking new study proposes that black holes, which absorb everything into an inescapable void, may eventually transition into “white holes” that eject matter and energy into the cosmos.

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...