The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again captured the attention of the scientific community with its latest ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

Before the cosmos lit up with stars and galaxies, the universe passed through a dark, silent era. But new findings suggest ...

The discovery is only one of a handful of enigmatic objects called ORCs that have ever been found. And their origins are ...

Tidal disruption events occur when a star strays too close to a massive black hole and is ripped apart by its gravity. In ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

A Douglas County native who is an associate professor of astronomy at California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, ...

Fellows receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached grant to pursue their interests. Since 2020, UC alumni and faculty have ...

Astronomers recorded the longest gamma-ray burst in history, GRB 250702B, that may be a cosmic event completely new to ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...