NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...
Using a powerful combination of space-based measurements and Subaru’s advanced imaging, astronomers have discovered two rare companions, one of which enables a key test for NASA’s Roman Space ...
Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...
R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...
A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.
If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.
A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...
Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...
Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...
It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...
The JetBlue flight was headed from Cancun to Newark on Oct. 30, when it fell out of the sky for no apparent reason in a ...
Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.