Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has been sonified by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C (Sgr C). Reported to be around 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

Instead of the big bang, some physicists have suggested that our universe may have come from a big bounce following another ...

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In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current astrophysical models. The clash formed a 225-solar-mass monster, possibly made ...