Supported by the new Astronova Fellowship program, Christina Vides will advance her research in a technique that sharpens the ...

Shanghai has become one of the focal points of that effort. The city has sharply increased spending on basic research in ...

New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The ...

New observations show that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way does not consume nearby dust objects as ...

A black hole is not sitting inside a lab in Manhattan, but some of its strangest physics just helped shape a tabletop ...

Smithsonian Starstruck is a brand new immersive space experience now open at London's Science Museum, inviting visitors to ...

Astronomers using ESA's Euclid telescope have discovered the oldest known quasar, shining with the light of a trillion suns ...

NASA plans to launch the Habitable Worlds Observatory in the 2040s, a mission whose goal is “to image Earth-like planets ...

Princeton researchers have played a major role in developing software pipelines to process the massive amounts of data the ...

New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The findings may require experts to revise estimates of the total size of our ...

A black hole shredded a massive star in a record-breaking explosion, but what astronomers discovered afterward may be even ...

For the first time, astronomers have discovered stellar cocoons rich in complex organic molecules within a supernova remnant.