The chemical foundations of life could be found in the frigid pockets of molecular clouds that exist in the space between ...

The satellites in Amazon's new internet-beaming megaconstellation in low Earth orbit are bright enough to disrupt ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Astronomy is the study of stars, planets and the vast space beyond Earth. Every so often, scientists spot an event so unusual that it challenges what we think we know about the universe. Among ...

The early universe has a lot more massive black holes than suspected.

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Researchers have reported new experimental results addressing the origin of rare proton-rich isotopes heavier than iron, ...

The astrophysicist was one of the first researchers to bring astronomy closer to the general public and to advocate the ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...