Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the universe, and a new mission proposal suggests launching a space telescope specifically to study them. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT ...

Planets outside our solar system can be wild, weird places. Astronomers have discovered exoplanets shaped like a rugby ball, or where it rains gems, or which have one hemisphere covered in lava. And ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

I make use of several space-based telescopes including the Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observatories, the Spitzer infrared telescope, and HST in the ultraviolet. I have been using these telescopes ...

as well as by professional astronomers using space-based telescopes. Key features to observe on the rusty-red surface of Mars include the canyon systems of Valles Marineris; the largest volcano in ...

A constellation of small satellites could help researchers view processes in close vicinity of supermassive black holes like ...

At extremely high densities, quarks are expected to form pairs, a phenomenon called color superconductivity. The strength of ...