With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance...
An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a massive,...
A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star,...
Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as...
Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of...
Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, broadened the...
One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar – a spinning black hole spraying out...
University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These...
People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown...
At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to...
Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is challenging...
Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles...
