How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

A cargo plane flew the HALO module to the U.S. from Turin, Italy, where it was constructed by the company Thales Alenia Space ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...