A group of Chinese scientists has recently found key evidence for the existence of nanohertz gravitational waves, marking a new...
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed, for the first time, starlight from two massive galaxies...
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed, for the first time, starlight from two massive galaxies...
Researchers have reconstructed what alien astronomers observing our Milky Way galaxy from afar would find if they analyzed our home...
Last year, scientists drove up Mauna Loa volcano on Hawai’i, aimed a laser at a reflector positioned on Haleakala peak...
While searching for the origins of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB), an international team of astrophysicists may have stumbled upon...
An international team of astronomers has drawn a temperature map of the dust drifting within one of the oldest spiral...
An international team of scientists has discovered that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of...
Near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy sits an immense object that astronomers call Sagittarius A*. This “supermassive” black...
On 9 October 2022 a flash of high-intensity gamma rays was detected by NASA’s Swift satellite coming from a galaxy...
The universe is big, and it’s getting bigger. To study dark energy, the mysterious force behind the accelerating expansion of...
In the early universe, the gas between stars and galaxies was opaque—energetic starlight could not penetrate it. But 1 billion...
