The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers have found the best evidence for a black hole of an elusive class known as "intermediate-mass," which betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that passed too close. This ...

Some sci-fi movies take the genre extra seriously, using accurate technologies to ground their depiction of the future.

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

The science communicator, a disciple of Stephen Hawking, believes it will be decades before we colonize Mars. But he says we ...

Groundbreaking "camera-on-a-chip" technology that was originally developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for use in space missions is ...

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 ...

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

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.