A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals ...

Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class ...

Researchers refined the trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter data, improving predictions and enabling precise monitoring for scientific study and planetary defense ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

NASA is heading into the holidays with long-awaited good news about its next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman ...

This year’s WTOP “Gift Ideas for Stargazers,” coincides with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, to possibly help get the best deals for that special someone on your holiday gift list that loves the ...

If you're wondering what kind of telescope you need to see Saturn and Jupiter, you're halfway to the answer. Although either of the two main types of telescope — refractors and reflectors — can be ...

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

A new trick with light has now helped capture the sharpest-ever measurement of a disk around a nearby star, beta Canis ...