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

JERUSALEM, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- An international team of researchers has found that radio wave measurements from the moon could advance scientific understanding of dark matter, which makes up most of ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

Solar flares are colossal explosions in the sun's atmosphere that hurl out bursts of powerful radiation. These events are ...

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 ...

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

The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has changed direction, and scientists aren't sure why.

Astronomers Discover Rare Einstein Cross With Fifth Image, Revealing Hidden Dark Matter When Rutgers theoretical ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

Astronomy magazine tends to focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth, into the depths of space. But the vast majority of observational satellites around our blue world stare right back at ...