Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers have uncovered the most promising evidence yet for the existence of dark stars—giant cosmic objects powered by ...