Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes,...
In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the...
An international team led by astronomers at Leiden University has shown in laboratory experiments that sulfur can bind with ammonium...
A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects...
Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star...
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never...
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across...
Astronomers observe X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole that accelerate mysteriously
One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise...
New observations from the National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NSF NRAO) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (NSF...
The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new...
Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams...
