Astronomers have captured a groundbreaking phenomenon at the brink of a supermassive black hole located at the heart of ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves—found throughout the universe—are able to ...

Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves -- found throughout the universe -- are able to accelerate particles to extreme speeds.

NASA selected 25 new citizen science proposals for funding that will lead to new projects and new results to look forward to ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." ...

Plasma waves: Plasma is like a soup of charged particles, such as electrons and ions, which are extremely thin and widely ...

A research team at the University of Virginia is revolutionizing the future of space travel with groundbreaking studies on ...

Twelve full moons will shine brightly in the sky this year. Skywatchers in Ontario will also be able to catch a total lunar eclipse and one partial solar eclipse in 2025. Here’s when you can catch all ...