On what would've been the astronomer's 90th trip around the sun, here's a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Using the CHIME telescope, an international team of astronomers has detected a new repeating fast radio burst (FRBs) source ...

Scientists have identified one of the largest carbon-based molecules in space yet. It could help us decode the origins of ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Scientists have discovered the hungriest black hole in the early universe. The low-mass supermassive black hole – named ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

Rainbows may be a trick of the eye, but they’re also based in fascinating optical physics. Here's how they work and why we ...