Astronomers may have discovered the first example of an explosive cosmic event called a "superkilonova," in the form of a ...

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array) radio telescope, located in theChilean Andes, has long been a key tool for astronomers seeking to understand the universe’s most distant and ...

A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

Visitors to the Sunwheel can see the sun rising and setting over the winter solstice stones from approximately Dec. 16 ...

Although this controversy might be specific to Chile, home to 40 percent of the world’s astronomy infrastructure, the project ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa and elsewhere have observed the Taurus star-forming region, which ...

Shandin Pete says Indigenous astronomy seeks to reclaim stories on how and why star groupings and constellations look the way they do.

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Imagine predicting an entire planet's existence with nothing but math, and then finding it right where the numbers ...