The jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the history of the universe, astronomers reported.

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...

The discovery was made possible using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It’s a precursor to ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Diplomatic Courier editor Jeremy Fugleberg brings you three under–the–radar stories from the Hinterlands: scientists search ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too big, too fast. New research points to a strange form of dark matter as a ...

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