Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event ...

When Oumuamua, the mysterious object from beyond our solar system, slipped silently past Earth, scientists were confronted ...

UW’s Institute for Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, founded in 2016 with support from the Charles and ...

“It shows you how weird the universe is, and how different solar systems are from our own,” said study co-author Rebecca Oppenheimer with the American Museum of Natural History.

If you imagine the expanding universe like the surface of a balloon, you can see that as the balloon (our stand-in for space-time) expands, galaxies are carried along with it. Because space-time ...