Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

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As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

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A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

Astronomers may have misread cosmic acceleration for 27 years. The universe may be slowing down, not speeding up.

A new study is implying that the universe may actually be slowing down and that the culmination of the decrease in dark ...

A team led by an astronomer from the University of Maryland has, for the first time, detected large complex organic molecules frozen in ice beyond the Milky Way, providing new insight into the ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited the young cosmic clouds. If you stood inside one of those ancient ...

This video presents a comprehensive zoom out to the observable Universe, illustrating the vastness of space and the scale of ...