Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...
The VLT recently captured an image of an object known as Ve 7–27, which was long thought to be a planetary nebula. However, ...
Some evidence of supermassive black holes influencing the gas around them has previously been seen in X-ray images. However, ...
Europe's ESO star-gazing organisation on Monday welcomed plans to call off building a massive green energy project in the ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, scientists have observed the most distant and ...
In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...
The John J. McCarthy Observatory — run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School — has been watching the night sky for 25 years.
Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14 ...
A new discovery captures the cosmic moment when a galaxy cluster – among the largest structures in the universe – started to ...
The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...
By measuring the galaxy’s redshift, the scientists behind the discovery were able to confirm that its light has been ...