The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

The Very Large Array is one of the largest telescopes on Earth and a remarkable achievement in science and engineering.

For nearly 10 years we’ve been operating in a search mode, and any day we could make a discovery,” said Gray Rybka, a ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...

Edward Herrick-Gleason Astronomy Educator, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador The post What is the universe expanding into ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

The Department of Astronomy is a step closer to mapping the final frontiers of space with a research center, which announced ...

Astrophysical explosions, encompassing events like supernovae and black hole consumptions, are becoming increasingly ...