"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

A strange cosmic trail discovered in a galaxy is intriguing astronomers with its exceptional dimensions and origin. This ...

Astronomers spotted the celestial standoff in the heart of the galaxy OJ287, around five billion light-years from Earth.

Webb Telescope Illuminates Star-Birthing Zone in Milky Way. On Thursday, the James Webb Space Telescope, operated by NASA, released striking visuals of stars and interstellar matter in the Milky Way’s ...

Lacki suggests detecting the combined glow of the emissions of several civilizations. It’s an approach that comes with its ...

For decades, scientists engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have probed the galaxy for signs of ...

Lacki’s study, “Artificial Broadcasts as Galactic Populations,” has been posted to the preprint science journal arXiv. In it, ...

The most energetic events in the universe are gamma ray bursts, beams of radiation so intense they could wipe out all life on ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been busy, and honestly, it’s like getting a whole new set of eyes on the universe.

A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s ...

Astronomers using JWST have captured the sharpest infrared view yet of the supermassive black hole jet in M87, offering new ...

In a significant potential shift for astrophysics, it turns out that some quasars may weigh as little as half what was previously believed. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...