Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

Data that would take 699 days to transmit over the traditional Internet was transferred in just 1.6 hours on a testbed for ...

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

James Webb telescope data confirms the first known runaway supermassive black hole, revealing how it escaped its host galaxy, how scientists tracked it and what its discovery means for galaxy ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...

The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth on Friday, offering scientists a rare ...

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel ...