Clues to a black hole’s origins can be found in the way it spins. This is especially true for binaries,...
An international team of astronomers has used data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to report the discovery of the...
The NSF’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has revealed new information about mysterious radio bubbles surrounding a supermassive black hole. In...
New research sheds light on how the “hell planet” got so devilishly hot and how other worlds might become too...
Imagine walking into a room at night, turning out all the lights and closing the shades. Yet an eerie glow...
Around 2,500 years ago, a star ejected most of its gas, forming the beautiful Southern Ring Nebula, NGC 3132, chosen...
The mysteries of the cosmos continue to amaze astronomers, and with each new observation comes a chance to deepen—or upend—our...
Establishing a moon base will be critical for the U.S. in the new space race and building safe and cost-effective...
For nearly two decades, astrophysicists have believed that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) resulted solely from the collapse of massive stars....
The standard view of gamma-ray bursts as a signature for different types of dying stars might need a rewrite. Recent...
The James Webb Space Telescope lit up 2022 with dazzling images of the early universe after the Big Bang, heralding...
New research, based on two decades’ worth of data, shows that in the ten years after its onset in 2000,...
