Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in the history of astronomy. The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, an ...

New images from astronomers are unveiling the turbulent secrets of a supermassive black hole. The black hole, located in the ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

Every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, bringing it closer, brighter, and nearly 10 times easier to observe than at ...

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

The first image of a black hole was of M87*, the supermassive monster at the center of the enormous elliptical galaxy M87. The image was only possible thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope, and follow ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

Scientists have discovered what's thought to be the oldest known mummies in the world in southeastern Asia dating back up to ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...