Meteors may help astronomers devise a new way to locate dark matter—mysterious and invisible particles that have so far only...
Through the clever use of two types of telescopes, a team of researchers has produced stunning images of clusters of...
In the early-morning hours of today, 14 October 2022, astronomers using the Gemini South telescope in Chile operated by NSF’s...
Astronomers taking inventory of the material in the local universe keep coming up short. A new result from NASA’s Chandra...
With the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers has discovered a unique black hole spewing a fiery jet...
In October 2018, a small star was ripped to shreds when it wandered too close to a black hole in...
Astronomers around the world are captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over Earth...
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered the heaviest element ever found in an...
Astronomers from Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Montpellier have devised an ‘early warning’ system to sound the...
Astronomers have observed directly for the first time how intense light from stars can ‘push’ matter. Researchers from the universities...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made a unique measurement that indicates a jet, plowing through space at speeds...
Research led by Oxford University is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules in the nuclear region...
