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 ...

Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...

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.

The discovery of Inkathazo is part of a larger effort to explore the southern sky, an area relatively unstudied for giant radio galaxies. It is the third GRG found in a small region, suggesting that ...

South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has revealed a remarkable cosmic discovery—Inkathazo, a newly identified giant radio galaxy ...

Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shared this amazing time-lapse captured from the International Space Station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA / Matthew Dominick | edited by Steve Spaleta Mu ...

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...

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

James Webb recently peered at an alien world that could harbor alien life. What impact would such a seismic discovery have on ...