The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

A neutrino telescope, therefore, is a giant exercise in statistics. Observe lots of atoms for a long time and sooner or later ...

Most massive galaxies have black holes at their cores that emit energetic particles, heating the galaxy’s gas and dust.

The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

The US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the state of Bavaria will build a radio telescope on top of Germany’s highest mountain.

Space agencies and thousands of astronomers are working against the clock to determine the trajectory of the body before it ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

If an extraterrestrial civilization existed with technology comparable to ours, would they be able to detect Earth?

< Visual impression of the ultra-high energy neutrino event observed in KM3NeT/ARCA. The different col ... The KM3NeT Collaboration ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting observations of some exoplanets.