Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Could the demise of a single radio telescope shift the balance in a war today? In late August, Ukrainian forces attacked the ...

Using a specially designed solar telescope combined with an astronomy camera, he captured the rocket’s silhouette cutting through fiery shockwaves in the Sun’s plasma.

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

Astronomers from Pune's NCRA-TIFR have discovered a rare pulsar, PSR J1617–2258A, in the ancient star cluster M80 using India's upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT).

The newly discovered pulsar orbits its companion once every 19 hours, but instead of a smooth circle, the orbit is stretched into a long oval. Its unusual orbit makes the system very rare ...

An artist's impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26. New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have r ...

The asteroid is believed to be now 11 meters (36 feet) across, spinning on its axis every five minutes, and has a peculiar composition. The discovery has massive implications for the mission. One of ...

The RT-70 radio telescope in Crimea was once used to support missions to Venus and transmit messages to potential alien life in the cosmos.

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...