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

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...

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

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

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

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

A newly discovered distant object that astronomers have dubbed “The Cliff” could solve a riddle posed by some of the first ...

Cassini spacecraft data has been used to create the infrared views of Saturn's moon Enceladus. "Reddish areas indicate fresh ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser ...

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

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...