Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on our planet, explore the wonders of our star's domain, or venture into the ...

IIA astronomers confirm black hole activity suppresses star formation, revealing insights into galaxy evolution and gas ...

Black holes could soon help us understand dark matter. These extreme objects, long considered light traps, are now becoming observational tools. Through finer analysis of their images, ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...

A novel imaging technique used for the first time on a ground-based telescope has helped a UCLA-led team of astronomers to ...

Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole. The ...

The dazzling Orionid meteor shower peaked on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning between midnight and dawn.

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Stargazers can expect to see around 20 meteors an hour during the peak of the Orionids. Learn more about October astronomy ...