The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has long looked quiet, a dim and seemingly dormant presence ...

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Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University have found a young galaxy cluster that appears far ...

Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Deep-sky objects shine and the giant planets show off their satellites as the bright light from the Moon disappears from our ...

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The Circinus galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to ...

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université Paris-Saclay have reopened one of cosmology’s oldest ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new ...