The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

New Mexico State University Astronomy Associate Professor Wladimir Lyra has received a new $450,000 grant from the National ...

Join UW astronomer Megan Gialluca at The Museum of Flight on Sept. 20 for Crash Course in Astrobiology, exploring exoplanets and the search for life.

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the universe created by a mysterious substance known as dark matter.

There is much less water on the surfaces of distant planets outside our solar system than previously thought. These ...

A team of researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover 12 ancient black holes from 12.9 billion years ago ...

Spending time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) induced aging-like changes in a group of cells key for the health ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

More than 100 scientists, including meteor physicists from Western Space, completed first-ever comprehensive study of asteroid tracked from space to impact on Earth ...

When Rutgers theoretical astrophysicist Charles Keeton first saw an unusual picture shared by his colleague, he was intrigued ...

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...