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

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.

After solar activity spent several decades on the decrease, the number of sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections is once ...

An automated data-sharing system co-developed by SpaceX and American radio astronomers promises to protect radio telescopes ...

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

For the first time, astrophysicists have measured the recoil resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from the merger of two others. The international team of researchers measured the ...

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 ...

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

Researchers have spotted a Jupiter-like gas giant forming in the disk around a young sun — earlier in the star's lifetime ...

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

Astronomers worldwide are tracking 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object, currently traversing our solar system.

BAR HARBOR — Bar Harbor Whale Watch Company will again be offering Acadia Night Sky cruises featuring Maine astronomer ...