At the outer reaches of our solar system, astronomers have stumbled upon a perplexing icy object known as 2002 XV93, and it ...
Astronomers have spotted many "red and dead" galaxies in the early universe. These are massive systems that stopped forming stars surprisingly early in cosmic history. Now, they may have found ...
Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a ...
Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...
Every 40 seconds of nighttime for the next 10 years, a camera the size of a small car will capture strikingly detailed images of the southern sky, stitching together a time-lapse panorama of ...
On Jan. 26, 2026, the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Maunakea crossed an important threshold for time-domain astronomy. For the ...
In a blow to Donald Trump’s agenda, America’s Supreme Court blocked an executive order that would have denied birthright ...
A distant star-forming galaxy nicknamed the “Shadow Blaster” could have sent a ghostly cosmic particle hurtling toward Earth.
A New Mexico teenager reportedly went to the emergency center with severe burns after a NeeDoh toy sitting in a hot car for hours exploded when she squeezed it. The story follows a spate of headlines ...