Astronomers have observed two supermassive black holes orbiting each other in an intense cosmic waltz, revealed by jets of matter exhibiting astonishing twists. The team used the Event ...

At Armagh Observatory, Italian-born astronomer Dr. Stefano Bagnulo shares his lifelong passion for astronomy, his ...

Astronomers have identified powerful winds of vaporized metals inside a vast cloud that blocked the light of a distant star ...

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ...

A bold new lunar plan could make the Moon the best place to spot hidden black holes. What will it take to pull it off?

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Saturn and the moon will appear close together in Nevada skies. Here’s how and where to spot the pairing, known as a ...

SkyMapper and the SETI Institute have formed a strategic partnership to help SkyMapper build a decentralized telescope ...

A black hole 11.6 billion light-years away is breaking a speed limit for feeding, offering clues about the early universe's ...

A research team has investigated quasar variability by tracking optical to mid-infrared (MIR) wavelengths of variability ...