NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

For decades, the search for alien intelligence has revolved around the question: if someone out there is listening, how could ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope stunned the world with its clarity and depth, NASA’s latest telescope takes things even further. With improved infrared detection and higher resolution imaging, it ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct.

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 ...

Multi-year Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns around the supermassive black hole and reveal radio emission from the jet base.

The first image of a black hole was of M87*, the supermassive monster at the center of the enormous elliptical galaxy M87. The image was only possible thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope, and follow ...

Astronomers are using polarized light to study the black hole's magnetic fields. This helps them understand how black holes feed. University of Arizona astronomers played a key role in obtaining these ...

In 1835, six articles about life on the moon appeared in the New York Sun, which caused a stir for a long time – until it ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...