From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Making use of the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S.

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

Radio SETI experiments have traditionally relied on existing radio astronomy telescopes. While this allows such searches to be conducted on quite large instruments (for example, the 305 m Arecibo dish ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon may originate in diverse ways.

These jets can be detected with radio telescopes up to large distances. In our local Universe these radio jets are not uncommon, with a small fraction being found in nearby galaxies, but they have ...