Because the jet is aimed almost directly toward Earth, its brightness is amplified “by a factor of 30 or more,” said co-author Jack Livingston. At the same time, perspective plays a trick on observers ...

Travel to James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam and MIRI instrument views of protostar L1527. The protostar is about 100,000 ...

A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos from a peculiar celestial object. The source ...

Astronomers report that the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA) has discovered traces of oxygen in the very ...

Suzanne Stewart Staff Writer When the National Radio Quiet Zone was established in 1958, wireless interference was not a concern, but in the past nearly 70 years, technology has advanced by leaps and ...

Skywatchers who saw the Venus-Jupiter conjunction saw the start of an upcoming "planet parade" in the eastern sky. Here's ...

Another comparison; the Sun is 8.3 light-minutes away, meaning whenever we look at it (not that we should!), we're viewing it ...

By Dean Murray Space scientists have discovered "cosmic grapes" that could change the understanding of how galaxies are ...

Jonathan Tan, a research professor in the Department of Astronomy at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and an astrophysicist at the University of Virginia, has developed a new ...

This Friday, the UVa Department of Astronomy will be hosting Comet Con 2025 at Albemarle CiderWorks during the Perseid meteor ...

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...