Astronomers noticed something odd while reviewing radio data from distant space. Three bright signals appeared close together ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

Taking a look back over the last twelve months, here are several of the biggest science stories in physics this year, as well ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Astronomers have identified a massive cloud of water vapor surrounding a distant quasar, marking the largest single reservoir ...

Cutting-edge supercomputer simulations reveal intricate processes around black holes, improving our understanding of ...

Black holes are significant within the scientific exploration of space. They are places in space where gravity is incredibly strong, so much so that not even light can evade it.  The center of a black ...

In a remarkable breakthrough, astronomers have uncovered the first known triple system where three galaxies, each harboring ...

A rare triple system was identified by astronomers about 1.2 billion light-years away from Earth. The system, known as ...

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