The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a "monster merger" of two galaxies, NASA and the European Space Agency announced. The image shows a "peculiar" galaxy, Arp 122, that's actually ...

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 26 - (from our correspondent Domenico Palesse). Tradition and innovation, but also, and above all, research. On its world tour, the Amerigo Vespucci also becomes a gigantic ...

Astronomers discovered a new class of cosmic explosions known as "extreme nuclear transients" that are the most powerful phenomena known, aside from the Big Bang.

These cosmic monsters are creating the biggest explosions since the big bang Three supermassive black holes are gobbling up stars 10 times the size of the sun.

Findings from a new study into the cosmic "afterglow" may rewrite the history of the universe, according to researchers. This afterglow—the "cosmic microwave background" (CMB), the relic ...

The cosmic megastructure, dubbed the Big Ring, has a diameter of about 1.3 billion light-years and is among the largest structures ever observed. It appears to be roughly the size of 15 moons in ...