After 15 years of attempts, researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have for the first time successfully detected...
Astronomers have described the first radiation belt observed outside our solar system, using a coordinated array of 39 radio dishes...
Saturn’s rings are much younger than scientists once thought, according to new research from Indiana University Professor Emeritus of Astronomy...
Astronomers have found that supermassive black holes obscured by dust are more likely to grow and release tremendous amounts of...
More than a hundred blazars—distant and active galaxies with a central supermassive black hole that drives powerful jets—have been newly...
Researchers led by Ph.D. candidate Zang Lei and Prof. Qian Shengbang from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences...
An international team of astronomers including several Dutch researchers has observed, for the first time, the benzene molecule (C6H6) in...
Using ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), astronomers have created a vast infrared atlas of five nearby...
Globular clusters are the most massive and oldest star clusters in the universe. They can contain up to 1 million...
Stars living closest to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way have no stellar companions, a...
New images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover may show signs of what was once a rollicking river on Mars, one...
A new study sheds light on the bright outbursts of radiation that are created when a star is destroyed by...
