Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

When the six tiny spacecraft of NASA's SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission settle into their orbits high above Earth after launching later this year, they'll function as one ...

While it has become a word, laser used to be an acronym: “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”. But there is an even older technology called a maser, which is the ...

Observations with the Event Horizon Telescope enable researchers to localize the likely base of the central outflow in a ...

Hoping to see deeper into the universe, scientists and engineers are designing some of the largest and weirdest telescopes ...

Scientists trekked across Icelandic lava flows that served as stand-ins for Venus’s volcanic landscapes, testing tools and ...

Astronomers may have found a way to turn the Moon into a black hole observatory. By linking lunar telescopes with Earth-based ones, they could reach detail never seen before. Dozens of black holes may ...

Six small satellites built and tested in Logan have cleared a major pre-launch milestone for a NASA mission designed to listen for ...

A decades-old idea is quietly regaining attention in theoretical physics: ancient structures embedded in the universe’s ...

A new website outlines the importance of very long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) for geodesy and the wider community.

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...