"We can study a diverse population of supermassive black holes and their radio jets at different stages of their evolution." ...

Astronomy does not belong off Earth. It belongs wherever the universe can be observed — and that necessarily includes the surface of the planet humans live on. Kelsey Johnson: Past President of the ...

Read a sci-fi short story every month and join a virtual community of fellow science fiction fans! Using the world's largest radio telescope array, The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, ...

A newly detected X-ray transient may reveal the first direct evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole consuming a white dwarf. A newly observed cosmic outburst is giving astronomers a rare glimpse ...

NASA astronomers have detected a 200-AU-wide X-ray-emitting bubble around the young Sun-like star HD 61005. The powerful ...

On February 24, 1968, an astronomy grad student Jocelyn Bell announced that she had discovered the first pulsar. A few months earlier, she noticed what she called a "bit of scruff" in the data from ...

A total lunar eclipse, also called a \"Blood Moon,\" will happen in the sky on March 3, 2026. During totality, the Moon can look reddish. When the Earth.

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might have formed after a collision with a lost moon, according to new research.

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like ...

The Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD), a partnership between the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) under the Department of Science, Technology ...

Finlay Campbell says the skies above Inverclyde can hold as much inspiration for today's young people as what's on the ground.

Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collaboration of cosmologists has created a unified approach for measuring the value of the Hubble constant. Published in ...