Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible light (top right) and low-energy X-rays (bottom left) are blocked by the gas ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in August 2024. Launching no earlier than Feb. 27 ...

In NASA's latest survey, experts detected black holes hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust and others that are not.

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

Astronomers discovered ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, frozen for 13 billion years, offering rare insights into early cosmic ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...

According to NASA's SPHEREx mission details, the observatory will survey the entire sky using near-infrared light. Its goals include exploring how galaxies evolved, understanding the structure of the ...

Radio galaxies already feature mind-bending physics, with supermassive black holes accreting matter at the galactic core and sending out vast plasma jets that glow at radio frequencies. Those larger ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers ...