A comet is expected to risk having its tail clipped on Friday by flying perilously close to the sun, promising...
Earth will capture a miniature, “second moon” this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny...
In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive...
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects―the most detailed one...
Quasars are the most luminous objects in the universe and are powered by material accreting onto supermassive black holes at...
An international group of researchers including University of Arizona astronomers, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has observed the atmosphere...
A Doppler shift is defined as a change of frequency of light or sound when an object is moving toward...
Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That’s...
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around a supermassive...
Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using spectroscopy. Now...
Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using spectroscopy. Now...
By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter’s moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell astronomers have...
