An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Tyson’s ultimate goal was to image large swathes of the sky, measuring how galaxies’ shapes distorted as their light ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

A decade-long investigation into puzzling neutrino behavior has now ruled out one of the most widely discussed explanations: the sterile neutrino.

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

Why are the jets emitted by black holes or neutron stars always concentrated like a laser? Craig CaseTwain Harte, California ...

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...

NASA's newest Hubble Space Telescope image of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has intensified scientific scrutiny after ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

New research shows how the star's powerful outbursts could help scientists assess which worlds might support life.