Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...

"When Arp 220 is observed as a whole, it's one of the best places in the universe for astronomers to study how gravity, star ...

Emporia State University's Peterson Planetarium gives attendees an awe-inspiring look at the cosmos in the latest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Right now, somewhere above our heads, missions are being planned that could redefine humanity's place in space. The decisions being made today about where to send our next wave of spacecraft and ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keep finding the same impossible thing: ancient supermassive black holes; monsters millions of times the sun’s mass, existing when the cosmos ...

A 3,000-light-year cosmic jet erupts from M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, offering a rare view of black hole activity from the galaxy Messier 87 ...

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple ...

"Looking out into the universe is uniquely allowing us to look back in time and piece together this beautiful cosmic story ...

But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young ...

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...