New observations and simulations by a research team led by MPE show that a massive binary star near the center of our Galaxy ...

Astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) have made the first direct detection of ...

A new image of the dusty spiral galaxy M77, taken by JWST. (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy) A brightly gleaming galaxy ...

Cosmic rays have been bombarding Earth for over a century, damaging satellites, threatening electronics, and leaving ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly measured the instantaneous power of jets blasting from a black hole system, ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

Researchers have developed a technique to analyze how black holes "ring" when they collide and merge: one of the universe's ...

High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may ...

The Milky Way’s galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, ...

If you can locate Lake City, Colorado on a map without zooming in three times, you’re either a geography savant or you’ve ...