But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's moon Europa and revealing the hidden chemistry of the icy moon's interior.

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Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology, told Space.com. "NASA always has a ...

A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Charles Schweighauser, who instituted the popular "Star Parties" almost 50 years ago at Sangamon State ...

Housed inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory — a new telescope nearing completion on Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter (8,800-feet) tall mountain about 300 miles (482 kilometers) north of the Chilean ...

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Jamie Holder is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware. Skip to site content. Quick Links. MyUD ... (Cherenkov Telescope Array) Consortium, which devised ...