Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel they need to form new stars. Astronomers have used ...

Using ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have serendipitously discovered a new open cluster in the Milky Way galaxy. The newfound cluster, which received the designation Ash-1, is relatively young ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC 891. Results of the observational campaign, published August 15 ...

TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Recap: Back in 1977, a unique radio signal from deep space got astronomers all riled up about the possibility of first contact with ...

The universe is huge, yet astronomers have looked at a few parts of the night sky over and over again. For example, many telescopes—from the Hubble Space Telescope to JWST and beyond—have ...

The phases of Venus, the Aurora Australis and the International Space Station transiting the Sun all feature as category winners in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Ryan Imperio ...

Chandra has the most resolving power of any X-ray telescope ever built, and for 25 years has provided astronomers with penetrating views of the invisible universe, including stellar explosions ...

NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this ...

It's through this process that astronomers first identified black holes with the famous case of Cygnus X-1, one of the brightest sources of X-rays in our sky. In the midst of this feeding frenzy ...

Michael Steven Harris's glowing photograph is just one of many arresting moments in this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Given that the ...

Gilbert and R. van der Marel (STScI), A. Cole (University of Tasmania); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Astronomers found Leo A beyond our galaxy, and past a ...