A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this ...

She turned the impossible into history. Dr. Katie Bouman led the development of an algorithm called CHIRP that helped create ...

A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

The observed near flatness of galactic rotation curves has long been interpreted as evidence for large amounts of non-baryonic dark matter. Here we show that this phenom ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest infrared observation of the Helix Nebula ever, displaying the death ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

NASA’s X-59 test flights rely on chase aircraft to monitor safety, communications, data collection, and instrumentation as ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...