An international team of astronomers have turned a new technique onto a group of galaxies and the faint light between...
Astronomers at Caltech have used a machine learning algorithm to classify 1,000 supernovae completely autonomously. The algorithm was applied to...
Some of the brightest objects in the sky are called blazars. They consist of a supermassive black hole feeding off...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just scored another first: a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of a distant...
A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has developed the most extensive inventory to date of the galaxies where short gamma-ray...
Analysis of the very first image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows that the MIRI instrument, developed in the...
Northwestern University astrophysicist Farhad Zadeh has been fascinated and puzzled by a family of large-scale, highly organized magnetic filaments dangling...
The earliest galaxies were cosmic fireballs converting gas into stars at breathtaking speeds across their full extent, reports a UCLA-led...
Astronomy is driven by big questions, and they don’t come much bigger than wondering how the first stars and galaxies...
A new study has revealed the true shape of the diffuse cloud of stars surrounding the disk of our galaxy....
Scientists and government representatives meeting at a conference in France voted on Friday to scrap leap seconds by 2035, the...
A few days after officially starting science operations, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope propelled astronomers into a realm of...
