Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...

While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

The Largest 'Black Hole Jet' Discovered Is Estimated to Be Twice the Size of Our Milky Way We know black holes to be ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...

Space has always captured human curiosity. Whether it's vastness, mystery or its planetary bodies. Many individuals, at some ...

A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...