A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

In a fresh discovery that's leaving astronomers awestruck, the James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a ...

Using telescopes on Earth and in space, researchers traced GRB 250702B to the constellation Scutum, near the dense, dusty plane of the Milky Way. A separate study led by Jonathan Carney of the ...

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

New data confirm that the titanic collisions of galaxies ignite the most powerful active galactic nuclei.Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are phases in ...

Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...

New data from the Euclid satellite confirm that galaxy collisions spark the brightest, fastest-growing black holes, offering fresh insight into how these cosmic giants form and evolve.

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way's largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere ...

A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...