NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., wants nothing to do with the microscopic dust particles clinging to your clothing. So before you enter the room, you first must stand in a chamber ...

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

By revealing a massive radio jet in the early universe, J1601+3102 offers a rare snapshot of early quasar activity.

Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years across from a distant quasar. This is the largest radio jet ever found in the early universe, and it ...

At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the universe's ...

Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

Making use of the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S.