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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

Seeing a satellite zip across the night sky can be a fascinating sight. However, what may be spectacular for people on the ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.