Dark matter is an enigmatic form of matter not expected to emit light, yet it is essential to understanding how the rich ...

Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...

Discovery: An international team has discovered a dark object in the distant universe that has one million times the mass of ...

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jean Mueller became Palomar Observatory’s first female telescope operator in 1985, breaking decades-old gender ...

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More times than she can remember, Jean Mueller stood on the catwalk of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory scanning the night sky, trying to time the exact moment to close the dome.

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Just 40 light-years from Earth, a red dwarf star named TRAPPIST-1 intrigues astronomers with its exceptional planetary system. Orbiting it are seven rocky planets similar in size to our own, several ...

Webb Telescope detected a possible direct collapse black hole between two merging galaxies called the "Infinity Galaxy." ...

An astrophysicist has proposed an intriguing explanation for why humanity has never made contact with an extraterrestrial ...