Comet 3I/ATLAS arrived from beyond the Solar System carrying a chemical story unlike anything astronomers had measured before. In the gas around it, they found isotope ratios that do not match the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered new details inside the unusual galaxy Centaurus A, revealing structures ...

Multi-million-dollar investment advances scientific instrument development and supports critical milestone toward completion of one of the world's most powerful telescopes ...

Probing the dawn of the cosmos for clues to how the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed is no easy feat ...

John Barry went from a Wexford cabin boy to the "Father of the US Navy." A new documentary finally tells his story.

University of Michigan astronomers were part of a team that have helped gain shocking insight into a "scientifically unique" ...

Astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) to study the composition of ...

Quasars — the brightest objects in the universe — are powered by supermassive black holes at the heart of early galaxies.

"This is the first time that we've been able to predict in human history an asteroid visibly passing by the Earth." ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found. Two of these ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found methane, aerosols, and a tidal heat signature on WD 1856 b — a Jupiter-sized world ...

After a year of testing, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started capturing data as part of the much-anticipated ...