The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

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The City Council Tuesday gave final approval to ban “nitrous,” joining other Orange County communities cracking down on ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

Fr. Richard D’Souza, S.J., an Indian astrophysicist, becomes Director of the Vatican Observatory, bringing rich research ...

Pope Leo XIV announced at the end of July the appointment of Fr. Richard Anthony D’Souza, S.J., as Director of the Vatican ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

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The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...