For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

Few cosmic visitors have captured the fascination of astronomers quite like the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hurtling through ...

When the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years hit Earth in May 2024, photographer Kavan Chay was in Tumbledown Bay, New ...

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A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

A partial solar eclipse happens Sunday in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Saturn will also appear at its brightest, with ...

Ph.D. candidate Anthony Englert GS observed a light bridge between two galaxies in local galaxy cluster Abell 3667.

WISPIT 2b is present between the third and fourth disks of WISPIT, 434 light-years away from Earth, and was captured by ...

A new moon is when the moon shares the same celestial longitude as the sun; the two bodies are said to be in conjunction.

Skywatchers around the globe are gearing up for the final solar eclipse of 2025, which will take place on Sunday, September ...

Monday is the first day of Fall for us in the northern hemisphere. It is the first day where there will be more darkness than ...