Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing...
The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would...
When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted...
Since their discovery in 2007, fast radio bursts—extremely energetic pulses of radio-frequency light—have lit up the sky repeatedly, leading astronomers...
Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly early...
How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or...
In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor...
On a mountain in northern Chile, scientists are carefully assembling the intricate components of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory,...
The meteorological data recorded over the past two decades by sensors of the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory facilities...
Astrophysical explosions are, to give a few examples, driven by the collapse of the iron core of a massive star...
Seeing a black hole’s jet in a new light: A look at high-energy particles being blasted across space
Research led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades’ worth of data from NASA’s Chandra...
