In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Ever since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched, it’s been revealing more about the universe than even most ...

A newly discovered neutron star is behaving so strangely that it may alter our understanding of the dense remains left behind ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), an international team of astronomers have performed deep optical ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Because planets always appear in a line, the alignment isn't anything out of the norm. What's less common is seeing so many ...

The NIAOT in Nanjing was placed on Washington’s entity list in 2023, not long after shipping the finished spectrograph ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

A group of astronomers have made history by capturing an image of a record number of stars from a time when the universe was ...