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Robert Redford, film icon, Oscar-winning director and activist, dead at 89 Protesters rally outside Peter Thiel's 'Antichrist ...
What happens if a black hole explodes? Join us for a fun and educational journey through one of space’s biggest mysteries! We’ll explore wild science, cosmic theories, and mind-blowing facts—all ...
University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, with a substantial contribution from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), has unveiled new, detailed images of the supermassive black ...
An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...
The Lake Havasu City Astronomy Club is looking for volunteers after it has reacquired equipment for a region-wide telescope recording program.
"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, effectively, one gigantic, very cold star." ...
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...
Multi-year Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns around the supermassive black hole and reveal radio emission from the jet base.
When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...
When black holes collide, they release gravitational waves. The waves contain information on the collision. If one black hole is much heavier, the waves vary with the observation angle.
With skies dark and clear enough to see the Milky Way, this RI town is named one of the best places to stargaze.