The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

NASA is continuously refining its tracking of 2024 YR4, using its network of telescopes, including the repurposed WISE Space ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million ...

The Euclid space telescope has, by chance, discovered its first Einstein ring, and it is absolutely stunning. Beyond its aesthetic appeal, this perfectly circular Einstein ring has allowed researchers ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Walking to the roof of Carnegie Science Hall to visit the college's observatory feels like being in a boat — the strange ...

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe. At double ...

Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the ...