James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

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Deep within the confines of Germany’s prestigious Max Planck Institute, an elite team of astronomers hunch over observations from a long-dormant satellite, painstakingly piecing together a ...

In the communications, NASA managers wrote that equipment not moved in time — including one-of-a-kind hardware — could be thrown away or donated. In a statement, a NASA spokesperson said the building ...

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How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

This quiz dives into the mysterious world of dark matter — what we know, what we don't, and how scientists are chasing shadows across the cosmos. From galaxy rotation curves that defy Newton's laws to ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...