Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

The jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the history of the universe, astronomers reported.

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

The discovery was made possible using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory ...

At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the universe's ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It’s a precursor to ...

Making use of the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Diplomatic Courier editor Jeremy Fugleberg brings you three under–the–radar stories from the Hinterlands: scientists search ...

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