Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

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

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

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 ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

The NIAOT in Nanjing was placed on Washington’s entity list in 2023, not long after shipping the finished spectrograph.

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Astronomers discover a network of cosmic tunnels linking our solar system to distant galaxies, revealing a dynamic and ...

A group of astronomers have made history by capturing an image of a record number of stars from a time when the universe was ...

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...