One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...

Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...

This could be a Dracula bill. It could never see the light of day. But I’m gonna give it a shot,” Bramnick said.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are harnessing the power of computers to ...