Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky...
New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic...
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an interesting extrasolar planetary system consisting...
Astronomers have discovered the most distant “relaxed” galaxy cluster to date—the farthest cluster ever spotted that is not being disrupted...
The James Webb Space Telescope began releasing a new wave of cosmic images on Tuesday, heralding a new era of...
Stars escape from their birth place and eventually become dispersed across the galaxy. This is an important process in galactic...
Scientists have found four enormous cavities, or bubbles, at the center of a galaxy cluster using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory....
It can be tempting to think of the stars that light up the sky each night as timeless. Astronomy professor...
Carbon-bearing molecules have been discovered in the atmosphere of the habitable zone exoplanet K2-18 b by an international team of...
Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates there may be some at the center...
Since 2003, the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster has been associated with sound. This is...
For the first time, scientists—starting from a discovery by scientific amateurs—have succeeded in confirm evidence for a fully developed shell...