Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

"When Arp 220 is observed as a whole, it's one of the best places in the universe for astronomers to study how gravity, star ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Over decades, he’s changed how his peers view the heavens. Space isn’t just an endless canvas to be studied at leisure, he says. See how it is also like a bag of popcorn in the microwave.

Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have uncovered a major clue in the mystery of how black holes produce immense cosmic jets. A new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics on ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keep finding the same impossible thing: ancient supermassive black holes; monsters millions of times the sun’s mass, existing when the cosmos ...

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple ...

The signals provide astronomers with a look into the life, and death, of a massive star exploding into a supernova.

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...

How thick is the ice shell on Jupiter’s moon, Europa? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...