A monster lurks in the heart of many galaxies, a supermassive black hole able to devour entire stars in a blink. These ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers witnessed a massive black hole jet slam into an unknown object in space.

As the 9th American institution to invest, Northwestern University expands the Giant Magellan Telescope international consortium to 15 members from the United States, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, ...

Many people have heard of the Keck Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope, but few realize just how many powerful ...

Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the ...

When the mercury drops, most Coloradans prefer to head indoors, especially after the sun goes down. But cold air (which holds ...

(Norris and Harney, 2014). For shorter journeys or when a songline was not available, the direction of the Moon or patterns of the stars were used for navigation. For example, the Euahlayi people (NSW ...

The idea of BHEX is to use a space-based telescope to collect even more detailed information from black holes, as there is ...

Professor Jack Gallimore led a team of international astronomers who, for the first time, have observed evidence of magnetic ...

Scientists have discovered seven more "dark comets," and analysis of this haul suggests that the puzzling planetoids are ...

And that’s how we find objects in the sky. For example, a galaxy might have a coordinate of, say, 16 hours, 34 minutes and ...

The Geminids are an astronomical highlight of the year, creating a spectacular show of shooting stars every December.