DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has launched a real-time alert system, capable of issuing up to 800,000 alerts per night, to track asteroids and exploding stars.

The universe is a place of unimaginable beauty and wonder—shimmering galaxies that dance across the cosmic stage, nebulae ...

Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

Particle never before seen on Earth detected; it could come from a primordial black hole and the origin of the universe.

Back in 2000, a team of physicists led by Lijun Wang at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, USA, pulled off a mind-bending experiment. They fired a precisely shaped laser pulse through a special ...

Space myths stick because they sound neat. The real physics is weirder, sharper, and more beautiful once the haze clears. For ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by ...

Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward ...

A unique technique allowed astronomers to see the early universe as a "sea of light" and explore the effects of gravity and ...

When this object was first observed, it didn’t just expand scientific knowledge — it unsettled it. Its behavior defied expectations and forced astronomers to reconsider what’s possible in deep space.

Black holes are born from the explosive deaths of stars. But can black holes themselves explode? Nobody knows for sure — but if they can, a team of scientists argue they may have spotted evidence of ...

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million cosmic scenes, including supermassive black holes, merging galaxies, and ...