A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration—which includes scientists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &...
For the first time, astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the...
Stars like the Sun are remarkably constant. They vary in brightness by only 0.1% over years and decades, thanks to...
New analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas
At the heart of a far-off galaxy, a supermassive black hole appears to have had a case of the hiccups....
Planets form in disks of dust and gas called protoplanetary disks that whirl around a central protostar during its final...
A team of astronomers led by the University of Victoria and Yale University has detected an ancient star system traveling...
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, headed to Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa in October 2024, will carry a laser-etched message that celebrates...
The ALMA radio telescope has detected more than 100 molecular species, including many indicative of different star formation and evolution...
A new investigation into an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, has revealed that these...
An international team of astronomers has discovered 49 new gas-rich galaxies using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. Their...
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to surprise us with stunning pictures, but of what exactly? Astronomer Nienke van der...
An international team led by Dr. Yuan Feng from Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has investigated...
