In a cosmic milestone that once seemed straight out of science fiction, astronomers have captured something previously only imagined: the birth of a planet. This is not a simulation or an artist’s ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

Scientists spotted an enormous black hole in the early universe that's growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit.

On September 20, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Sun Yat-sen University, ...

Visible light, infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays... These terms are not unfamiliar to us. Together, they form the ...

Scientists at the University of Reading are helping Nasa capture images of Jupiter using remore access to the Keck telescope.

Apophis will zoom safely past the Earth closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029. As well as the ...

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from ...

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...

An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole, a surrounding disk of material falling towards the black hole and a jet ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...