Born in India and raised in UAE, the young astrophysicist turned a childhood fascination with the night sky into research on ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these ...

Well, you get something like galaxy NGC 2775. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to ...

Astronomers have been watching this galaxy pair, NGC 4532 and DDO 137, for years and discovered a "gas bridge" over 185,000 light years long.

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a colossal bridge of neutral hydrogen gas linking two dwarf ...

Rutgers researchers uncover "fingerprints" that show how these cosmic systems expand and evolveA Rutgers-led team of ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

India Sunday marked ten years since the launch of AstroSat, the country’s first dedicated space observatory that has been ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang—a type of object that had previously escaped detection. An ...