An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

By combining subtle distortions in spacetime with observations of unusually bright galactic centers, the study authors have ...

York was the first researcher to find an isotope of hydrogen known as deuterium, which helped give researchers an ...

Shapley’s award of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics will be presented at the 249th AAS Meeting, Jan. 10-14, ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to map the galaxy’s hidden structures. The image is sharper, deeper, and ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

A plan to build a light-polluting green hydrogen plant near one of the world's most important astronomical observatories has ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

Across modern astronomy, the most striking pattern is not a single spectacular discovery but a drumbeat of similar clues. Wherever telescopes and probes look with enough sensitivity, they keep turning ...

The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...

Astronomers in the United Arab Emirates have issued important guidance indicating when exactly Ramadan is likely to begin.