An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini-moon," according to astronomers.

The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.

Wave Goodbye Elon Musk's Starlink communications satellites aren't just physically junking up Earth's orbit, but are, ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

Earth is getting a second moon! Yes, you read that right. From September 29 to November 25, "mini-moon"—an asteroid— will ...

Nicknamed Porphyrion after a giant in Greek mythology, the jet megastructure dates to a time when the universe was 6.3 ...

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Northwestern has secured a $20 million grant, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation, to develop ...

The website pointed toward a 2017 study by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics that suggests "these signals could ...

On Aug. 23, Yvette Cendes, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, posted on X an email from the director of her institution, which stated that funding for Chandra staff ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back.

The council chose Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz as the final speaker in the series, which leads up to the inauguration of Mexico's new ...