Priyamvada Natarajan has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most persistent mysteries, particularly the unseen ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

A new way to discover ancient black holes These extreme nuclear transients are giving astronomers a new tool to find supermassive black holes that are otherwise invisible, especially in the early ...

A new cosmological simulator logs its scientific predictions and refutations in real time, storing hashes in blockchain with full offline ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Rocket Lab launches four satellites aboard Electron from New Zealand The mission includes three RF-mapping satellites and one ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant mini-halo ever seen—10 billion light-years away—revealing that galaxy clusters ...

How are supermassive black holes born? That is the question astronomer Elena Maria Rossi is trying to answer. But how do you investigate something you cannot see? Supermassive black holes are the ...