A mysterious cosmic cloud of gas and dust harbors secrets that could unlock the origins of our solar system. A team of astronomers, led by MIT researchers, has identified a molecule called pyrene, a ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event a billion light-years away: two supermassive black holes orbiting each other ...

One idea was that AT 2021hdr was a tidal disruption event (TDE) ,] where a star strays too close to a black hole and is ripped apart. This can create periodic bursts as the stellar remnant orbits the ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

When penetrating particles from cosmic rays move through the atmosphere—in this case through electrically loaded clouds—they are ionising the air, making conducting paths for the lightning.

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

A mysterious cosmic cloud of gas and dust harbors secrets that could unlock the origins of our solar system. A team of astronomers, led by MIT researchers, has identified a molecule called pyrene ...

NASA's Swift Observatory revealed twin 'monster' black holes devouring a gas cloud in a distant galaxy, creating recurring ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

Yet these same spacecraft also beam back patterns and images that we sometimes interpret as being familiar: perhaps a face in rock, or a colossal hand in a cosmic cloud. This tendency to see a ...