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 ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Astronomers have identified a colossal giant radio galaxy (GRG) stretching 3.3 million light-years across—32 times the size ...

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

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Astronomers discovered the exoplanet in 2016, a gas giant that’s slightly larger than Jupiter with a fraction of its mass, ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...

After a close look with a powerful radio telescope, astronomers are still puzzled by a pair of objects with strange ...

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

A spectacular celestial event will unfold as six planets align in what astronomers call a planetary parade, offering ...