They call it dark matter—an invisible substance thought to make up most of the universe’s mass, sculpting galaxies and ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is currently a 5th-magnitude fuzzball low in the northwestern sky. This means that, from a dark site ...

For the first time ever, astronomers revealed the birthplace of an energetic jet blasted by a newborn star using the Atacama ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

The startup wants to use technology invented at MIT to make it easier and cheaper to build solar arrays, commercial centers ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

We previously covered such “gravity telescopes” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). These early 2 nd generation of ...

Astronomers discover a low-mass dark object through gravitational lensing and multiple radiotelescopes across Earth.

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its ...