An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, discovered a rapid explosion of matter around the supermassive black hole ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recently made a historic observation, identifying the earliest supernova ever detected.

For the first time, astronomers have observed ultra-fast winds emerging from a black hole in a distant galaxy, shedding new ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

At least two ingredients are needed to make jets — rotation and magnetic fields — and these produce the ubiquitous laserlike jets we see.

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Astronomers have discovered a beautiful, well-formed spiral galaxy from a time when the universe was still very young—only ...

The RISTRETTO project, dedicated to observing Proxima b –the closest exoplanet to the Solar System — is reaching a new milestone: several key components of this high-precision spectrograph have been ...

Two new awards totaling $4.8 million will fund next-generation instruments for mid-sized telescopes at Lick and McDonald Observatories, enabling researchers to study how planets and stars form. The ...