Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts—extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light—have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers...
Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly early...
How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or...
In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor...
On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory,...
The meteorological data recorded over the past two decades by sensors of the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory facilities...
Astrophysical explosions are, to give a few examples, driven by the collapse of the iron core of a massive star...
Seeing a black hole’s jet in a new light: A look at high-energy particles being blasted across space
Research led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades’ worth of data from NASA’s Chandra...
Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In...
Many black holes detected to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems comprise a black hole...
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly 200,000 light-years from Earth, lies the young star...
A study published in The Astrophysical Journal presents new simulation results of supernova explosions that explain the latest observational data...
