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Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope - now simulations suggest it could be a primordial black hole, something we have never seen before ...

Not all planets are lucky enough to live in a neighborhood like our Solar System - some are doomed to roam the cosmos alone.

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it vanished. Even stranger, another bright object appeared nearby. After studying years of Hubble Space Telescope data, scientists .. ...

Deep in space, two massive spiral galaxies are slowly but inevitably pushed together by gravity. IC 2163 and NGC 2207 must have had a close call millions of years ago as they flew by each other at hundreds of kilometers per second. From Earth, they . ...

Michele Bannister, an astronomer at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, said the object presents a 'once in a lifetime opportunity' for the scientific community ...

Astronomers say it's the largest ever seen.

The Champagne Cluster is a rare and beautiful example of two galaxy clusters smashing together. Its festive name comes from both its New Year's Eve discovery and its bubbly appearance in space. Images reveal superheated gas and galaxies spread across ...

Are aliens real? A Nature Astronomy study reveals 87% of experts believe life exists. Explore how 3I/ATLAS and AI are accelerating the search for E.T.

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a single system - a rare event that will help elucidate the physics of complex mergers ...

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova."