Hoping to see deeper into the universe, scientists and engineers are designing some of the largest and weirdest telescopes ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Scientists are observing the behavior of a supermassive black hole that is ...

Using these JWST observations, the team inferred the distribution of dark matter using "weak gravitational lensing" in ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured an "array of stars that make up the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to ...

A supermassive black hole with a case of cosmic indigestion has been burping out the remains of a shredded star for four ...

The oddly named black hole is firing out energy beams up to 100 trillion times more powerful than the fictional massive space ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do people use telescopes to look into space ...

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

India is significantly boosting its astronomical observation capabilities with four new and upgraded facilities. Finance ...