New research reveals that active supermassive black holes can suppress star formation in neighboring galaxies across vast ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight Center animation. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image L ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's evidence of an "intermediate-sized" black hole about 6000 light-years away in the closest globular star cluster to our home planet. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

A NASA animation has sized the biggest black holes known to scientists, including one that has the mass of 66 billion Suns.

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

Traces of ancient life on Mars can persist for tens of millions of years in the ice, even under the influence of cosmic radiation. This conclusion was reached by scientists from NASA and the ...

While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.

In late February, people in the Northern Hemisphere can look up for a special sight: six planets will all be visible from clear and dark night skies. New sonifications from NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...

In the 1980s, sensors used to produce high-quality images for space science (including the amazing images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope) and other applications employed charge coupled device (CCD ...

A subtle gravitational-wave “hum” from merging black holes may help settle the cosmic fight over how fast the universe is ...

Astronomers propose a new method to detect hidden supermassive black hole pairs using warped starlight, offering early clues before gravitational wave signals arrive.

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million ...