An international team of astronomers says it has discovered supermassive, dust-shrouded black holes in seven galaxies, using a combination of telescopes on the Earth and in space.

In total, Saturn is thought to have at least 274 moons, the greatest number of natural satellites in the solar system. After its opposition, Saturn will stay visible for many weeks, but each passing ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured an amazing video of the outflow Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50), a newborn star.

Jupiter's auroras were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, ...

In a speech at the AMOS conference the day after the telescope tour, Saltzman said the Space Force is “honored to be ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

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Kevin France, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of ...

Several well-known meteorite discoveries are still a mystery. Avi Loeb’s interpretation of some meteorite debris possibly being of alien origin is controversial, because peer‑reviewed analyses point ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...