Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...

Astronomers have proposed an astonishing new theory by studying the mysterious red light spots in the early universe: these celestial bodies may not be ancient galaxies, but rather a completely new ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, with a substantial contribution from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), has unveiled new, detailed images of the supermassive black ...

According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance between them – the inverse square law. However, as Most ...

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

A futuristic telescope design could one day let scientists finally look at fine details of the atmosphere of Earth-sized exoplanets — confirming if some are potentially habitable worlds. It would do ...

The B.S. in astronomy & astrophysics at UW offers students an adventurous course of study in astronomical objects—from stars to black holes to solar systems—and their properties and functions. The ...

Earlier this year, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) was alerted after an unusual source of visible light had been detected by a survey telescope. The VLT, together ...

A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

SINGAPORE - Five students from Singapore clinched four gold medals and a bronze at an international Olympiad for astronomy ...