Astronomers have found a potential new piece of the ongoing puzzle over “little red dots” (LRDs). It’s a distant smudge in the sky reminiscent of the mysteriously compact, crimson orbs that keep ...

A jet of charged particles moving at almost the speed of light, made from the remnants of a star that was brutally ripped ...

An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging black ...

CHAOS consists of over 80 space enthusiasts and helps make stargazing available to all through outreach events and pop-ups.

Hank squares off against Crash Course Astronomy host Phil Plait in our special Valentine’s/Old Timey Medicine edition of ...

Researchers have found what might be a little red dot transitioning into its final state, where x-rays burst through its gas ...

Long before telescopes and space travel, ancient civilizations had incredibly creative ideas about what the universe looked ...

A rare black hole explosion accounts for an “impossible” neutrino detection, say UMass Amherst scientists, possibly hinting ...

Using these JWST observations, the team inferred the distribution of dark matter using "weak gravitational lensing" in ...

Scientists are now certain that James Webb will break every such record until the earliest observable light is eventually ...

Eliza Frankel, a University of Wyoming Ph.D. student studying physics and astronomy, was one of seven graduate students honored with the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award at the 247th ...

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...