Astronomers have observed a rogue supermassive black hole, located off-center from its home galaxy, tearing apart a star ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the first direct evidence of a wandering supermassive black ...

The way to be certain is to observe the planet directly, but that would take a space telescope with a mirror ... fueled in part by the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) for ...

At the Paranal Observatory, the UT4 telescope doesn't just stargaze—it actively creates its own stars using powerful lasers ...

The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg, Germany, has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its galaxy ripping a star to shreds — offering for the first time ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

Discover how three groundbreaking technologies, including the James Webb Telescope and LIGO, revolutionized our understanding ...

Astronomers are unraveling the mystery behind Ansky, a black hole system emitting powerful, repeating X-ray bursts called ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope and its Very Large Telescope Interferometer, as well as survey telescopes such as VISTA. Also at Paranal ESO will host and operate the Cherenkov ...