This artist's concept depicts a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. The "quasar winds" are propelling hundreds of solar masses of material outward into the galaxy disk each year. This ...

Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Puzzlingly, supermassive black holes more than a billion times the mass of the sun appear to exist just a ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies, studying ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

"The extent of the Milky Way's star-forming disk has long been an open question in galactic archaeology." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Philadelphia will celebrate baseball and 250 years of American history this summer as the 2026 Major League Baseball All-Star Game returns to the city known for the founding of the United States. MLB ...

The Washington publication is rebranding as it expands its local news and sports coverage in the wake of substantial layoffs at The Washington Post. By Katie Robertson “The Star” is born. NOTUS, a ...

We’ve finally gotten our first good look at Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord, the latest animated series in this ever-expanding franchise. Shadow Lord follows Sam Witwer’s iconic villain as he sets about ...

An ancient immigrant: an artist's conception (not to scale) of the red giant SDSS J0915-7334, which was born near the Large Magellanic Cloud and has now journeyed to reside in the Milky Way. Pasadena, ...

A group of scientists, including a class of undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, has discovered the most chemically pristine star yet known in the universe. This star dates back to the ...

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...