The fourth live-action "Star Trek" TV show made some mistakes along the way, but it was arguably held back by the time it was ...
The James Webb Space Telescope identified one of the oldest supernovas, AT 2023adsv, revealing early universe phenomena ...
If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
When fed with matter, such black holes eject jets of charged particles in two directions at the speed of light. If a jet ...
The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its 2025 Gold Medal for Astronomy to a University of Oxford professor.
At Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have leveraged the Frontier supercomputer to create an unprecedented simulation of the universe, encompassing a span of 10 billion light years and ...
In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...
This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.