The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...

A team of international astronomers has uncovered an unusual Einstein Cross, showing five points of light instead of the usual four. This rare cosmic alignment, linked to a recent study published in ...

On Sept. 18, 1965, amateur astronomer Kaoru Ikeya and professional astronomer Tsutomu Seki each independently discovered what ...

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb ...

A Kenosha astronomer has uncovered a piece of astronomy history — a telescope once thought to be lost forever.

NASA scientists have determined that the Sun has increased in solar activity, defying expectations that it would enter a more ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

For the first time, astrophysicists have measured the recoil resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

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 ...