Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers...
During a solar eclipse, astronomers who study heliophysics are able to study the Sun’s corona – its outer atmosphere –...
Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a...
Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our Sun hosts our solar system,...
Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of...
If you happen to find yourself in the Southern Hemisphere with binoculars and a good view of the night sky...
When NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn’t just change the asteroid’s orbit...
Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster...
Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late...
