"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

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Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition in June.

Conflicting distance measurements have added to the uncertainty. One data source places one object at 6,500 light years away, ...

An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) ...

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Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...