On December 26, 2019, photographer and astronomer Elias Chasiotis stood on the coast of Al Wakrah, Qatar, camera ready. He ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, suggesting that galaxies were interacting and shaping their surroundings far ...

A 3,000-light-year cosmic jet erupts from M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, offering a rare view of black hole activity from the galaxy Messier 87 ...

MoM-z14 existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang, according a team of astronomers led by Dr. Rohan Naidu from the ...

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple frequencies and completing the picture of the jet launching region." ...