The early universe has a lot more massive black holes than suspected.

The September 2025 issue featured "A guide to beginner's guides," a reminiscence and description of some the books for astronomy beginners that Contributing Editor Raymond Shubinski recommends or ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

SkyMapper and the SETI Institute have formed a strategic partnership to help SkyMapper build a decentralized telescope ...

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is remarkable, but they might be the only black holes we can ...

It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic ...