Unlike our Milky Way, some galaxies have an active black hole in their center driving powerful outflows of gas. But...
If life is abundant in the universe, atmospheric methane may be the first sign of life beyond Earth detectable by...
It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in...
The inner nebula of the much-studied supernova Cassiopeia A is not moving smoothly outward. This has been discovered by astronomers...
The number of sunspots on our sun typically ebbs and flows in a predictable 11-year cycle, but one unusual 70-year...
It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting up the screen in large chunks...
NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission will have some similarities with the James Webb Space Telescope. But the two observatories will take...
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have shown that a part of the Milky Way known as the ‘thick...
White dwarfs were once normal stars similar to the sun but then collapsed after exhausting all their fuel. These interstellar...
Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say...
A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s groundbreaking planned...
Astronomy’s newest mystery objects—odd radio circles, or ORCs—have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers using...
