Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keep finding the same impossible thing: ancient supermassive black holes; monsters millions of times the sun’s mass, existing when the cosmos ...

Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.

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Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in 2022. Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy today, ...

Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

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A 3,000-light-year cosmic jet erupts from M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, offering a rare view of black hole activity from the galaxy Messier 87 ...

Winter weather has forced the annual 2-day event which draws thousands to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to be ...

The September 2025 issue featured "A guide to beginner's guides," a reminiscence and description of some the books for ...