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 ...
Second only to black holes, neutron stars—incredibly dense star remnants—are the densest objects in the universe. When ...
A bizarre radio galaxy discovered by a citizen scientist has left astronomers puzzled, revealing a never-before-seen "bow-and-arrow" structure that could offer rare insight into how galaxies are ...
A distant star-forming galaxy nicknamed the “Shadow Blaster” could have sent a ghostly cosmic particle hurtling toward Earth.
Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...
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3I/ATLAS was described as the third confirmed interstellar object after ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, but the script says it did not behave like either of them. It passed within about 28 million ...
NASA confirmed a meteor following a NOAA satellite's detection May 30 of a bright flash over Cape Cod Bay. Witness reports are essential in the detection of meteors and other events involving ...