Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years away. Unlike most, it is actively feeding and producing radio jets, making it ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Pope Leo XIV announced at the end of July the appointment of Fr. Richard Anthony D’Souza, S.J., as Director of the Vatican ...

Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe. It neither emits nor absorbs light, making it invisible ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...