A worldwide network of telescopes has produced an image of a jet of radio waves appearing to blast out from the…

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have detected quasars sending outbursts of energy roaring through their…

This discovery should speak for itself: Scientists have discovered a crazy example of a crazy thing at a crazy…

“I don’t know!” is among the most scientific phrases you can utter. “I don’t know” is the reason you do science,…

If active galactic nuclei don’t make you say “holy shit,” what will? Lots of galaxies contain incredibly bright…

Three and a half billion light years away in the Virgo constellation, two supermassive black holes are on the verge…

Human teenagers don’t have the best rep for being stable, rational individuals. And so too with quasi-stellar…

Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), astronomers have catalogued 20 previously undetected…

The Hubble Telescope captured images of these galaxies surrounded by glowing green clouds. They’re remnants of…

Astronomers say all of the galaxies in the universe are connected by a vast cosmic web of filaments, but we've never…

Astronomers have found a mind-bogglingly large structure in a remote part of the Universe — an expanse of space…

Astronomers from York University in Canada have identified an undocumented type of quasar where gas appears to be…

We already knew that the universe had a distinct starting point, and now researchers at MIT have actually seen the…