In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once penned the words “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe ...

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

The universe will not last forever. In fact, scientists have revealed that its lifespan is almost half over already.

Astronomers tend to make a solid living that is comfortably over $100,000 per year, but hefty schooling is required to get to ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

In a coordinated global effort, 26 observatories attempted to capture Quaoar’s shadow as it passed over Earth. Only a handful ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

A top a mountain in Chile, where the days are dry and nights are clear, a team of scientists and engineers is preparing for ...

Discover the history and importance of Mauna Loa in monitoring CO₂ levels and the impact of defunding climate monitoring ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...