But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Well, it's July 12, which means (a) the Steam Summer Sale is over and (b) it's really hot outside in the northeastern U.S. This week, researchers discovered a cool new fish and named it after Darth ...

Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that ...

One of the main objectives of the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was to measure the size and age of the Universe, ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

In A Nutshell New theoretical models predict “dark dwarfs” — objects powered by dark matter annihilation. These cosmic bodies would shine steadily near the galactic center for billions of years. They ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

During a record-breaking flight through the sun’s corona in Dec. 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever ...

Valdosta State University in Valdosta announced the following local students were part of its graduating class of spring 2025: ...

Seven projects led by McMaster faculty and staff members are receiving grants for the creation and integration of free, high quality open textbooks and course . . .

通过观测遥远的Ia型超新星，1998年两个合作组宣布发现宇宙处于加速膨胀的状态。这个发现完全改变了人们对宇宙演化的认识，Perlmutter、Schmidt和Riess因而获得了2011年的诺贝尔物理学奖。2003年WMAP卫星发布了宇宙微波背景辐射 ...