"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible changes that could help scientists better predict potentially dangerous ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

With the moon only 9% illuminated, the skies will be dark. This increases the chances of spotting meteors without the glare ...