As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

Instead of the big bang, some physicists have suggested that our universe may have come from a big bounce following another ...

Scientists say the two black holes merged after colliding at speeds near the limit allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of ...

In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

Falling into a black hole may sound like something from a science fiction movie, but it is a very real phenomenon studied by ...

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

The story of how Corbet's Couloir got its name and the legacy it's left in skiing.

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current astrophysical models. The clash formed a 225-solar-mass monster, possibly made ...