Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...

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 ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.

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 ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

Located at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the supermassive black hole M87* holds a special place in the science history books: it’s the first black hole ever imaged and is the origin of ...

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

Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have uncovered a major clue in the mystery of how black holes produce ...

How thick is the ice shell on Jupiter’s moon, Europa? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies ...

A team of scientists has found that, unsurprisingly, Amazon’s new internet mega constellation, Amazon ...