Data from 41 million galaxies does not shake up the standard cosmological model after all. To that conclusion, to their own ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar – a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

Now, a new study by a team of astrophysicists from UNLV and Stony Brook University, published April 19 in the journal Nature Astronomy, introduces a compelling model for how these JuMBOs may have ...

AI tools are transforming how we observe the world around us — and even the stars beyond. Recently, an international team ...

A new map of cosmic expansion suggests that dark energy evolves over time, hinting that the universe doesn’t work the way we ...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have been watching a small constellation in the night sky, waiting for a nearby binary star system to explode. The wait may finally be over ...

Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 For decades, astronomers have probed the space around Barnard’s Star in search of exoplanets. As our cosmic neighbor—the nearest single-star system to our sun—it ...

That said, to aid astronomers looking to do similar planetary formation analyses in the future, the work also provides a statistical framework for inferring the total mass of solid accretion for ...

"Astronomy is the bridge between life on Earth and everything else happening in the universe, whether it be our Moon, the sun, or an ancient galaxy billions of light-years away," Brian Lada, a ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...