After years of investments, African telescopes are emerging as global leaders in frontier astronomy. From South Africa’s MeerKAT capturing the universe’s most distant gigamaser to Ghana’s radio ...
Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.
Spring skies reveal some of the best galaxies visible to backyard telescopes.
In November 2024, gravitational-wave detectors recorded the violent merger of two black holes billions ...
Astronomers have released a new view of the Cat’s Eye Nebula using Hubble and Euclid telescopes, revealing complex gas shells ...
Humanity has always been fascinated by space. We are able to see the universe with breathtaking clarity because of NASA's powerful telescopes. Astronomers have been able to take pictures of galaxies ...
Members of the Mahoning Valley Astronomical Society are helping residents learn more about the stars and planets by ...
A strange flicker from a star 11,000 light-years away reveals evidence of two planets crashing together in a rare cosmic ...
The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...
Data from Chandra X-ray telescope and James Webb Space Telescopes have revealed a black hole from 470 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...
New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...
A new proposal to build telescopes on Haleakalā's summit is reigniting a fight that has been ongoing for more than a decade.