A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger—thanks to the eagle-eye of...
When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The...
by Chris Evans, Mark McCaughrean, Sandor Kruk, and Sam Pearson, European Space Agency New images of the Orion Nebula from...
In recent years, astronomy has seen itself in a bit of crisis: Although we know that the universe expands, and...
Observations of the BlueWalker 3 prototype satellite show it is one of the brightest objects in the night sky, outshining...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
A new paper entitled “Evolutionary Paths of Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Host Galaxies,” published on August 17, 2023, in...
The nearby radio galaxy M87, located 55 million light-years from the Earth and harboring a black hole 6.5 billion times...
A newly discovered nearby supernova whose star ejected up to a full solar mass of material in the year prior...
Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part...
Every so often, astronomers glimpse an intense flash of radio waves from space—a flash that lasts only instants but puts...
Though a doomed star exploded some 20,000 years ago, its tattered remnants continue racing into space at breakneck speeds—and NASA’s...
