The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

An aspiring naval officer Olivia Achenbach from the United States Naval Academy has unveiled surprising characteristics of ...

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A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

Thu, January 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM UTC “He’s getting red … look at him”: Potentially the final exchange between Karine Jean-Pierre and Peter Doocy. He left the US and moved to Malaysia to ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

NASA telescopes reveal 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden by dust, reshaping theories about their role in galaxy ...