Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for ...

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a gargantuan cosmic outburst, according to a new ...

The finding, based on data from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, marks the first direct evidence of tiny twisting magnetic motions of energy-packed plasma waves in the sun's outer ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study 25 hot Jupiters. It has helped to answer "questions important to our ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...