Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the...
Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black...
Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went...
Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the...
The low levels of gravity (microgravity) in space cause significant changes in astronauts’ eyes and vision after six to 12...
On 15 March 2024, Einstein Probe’s Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) detected a burst of low-energy X-rays. Astronomers call such X-rays...
At the 2025 Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new...
Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of structures. Now,...
In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the existence of...
NASA’s Artemis program goal of establishing a human presence on Earth’s moon is closer than ever to becoming a reality...
A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new...
