Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the Chandra team.

In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid ...

Astronomers have detected a cosmic explosion unlike anything ever seen before—an event that could point to a rare type of ...

Signals from the universe infancy is something that many people have tried to unveil, but it was only recently that someone ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Using its 14-inch main telescope, the observatory tracked the comet immediately after sunset. In the resulting image, the ...

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

On July 1, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected what was first believed to be an asteroid. As ...

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

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...