A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

These illuminated dust pockets help astronomers understand how stars interact with their surroundings, especially how dust ...

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the ...

This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented detail. This target is ...

For years, astronomers have been puzzled by the presence of two gigantic, high-energy “bubbles” towering over and beneath the Milky Way’s center, extending 50,000 light-years into space. First ...

That is why a group of astronomers led by Andra Stroe of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, decided to conduct multiwavelength observations of ...