Discovered on December 27, 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently rated as a three on the Torino scale. Space agencies around the world are closely monitoring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

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

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