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

NASA's advanced observatories have unveiled the Milky Way's hidden beauty, from its dense core with a supermassive black hole ...

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 ...

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb ...

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 ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.