The world's first telescope, crafted in 1608 by the Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey, led to stunning technologies that would later revolutionize our understanding of the universe. While his ...
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the ...
Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to capture a rare, close-up view of a quasar’s core. Quasars are some ...
"When you put it into context, Punctum is astonishingly bright." A bewilderingly powerful mystery object found in a nearby galaxy and only visible so far in millimeter radio wavelengths could be a ...
We already knew that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was different from the other two interstellar objects known to have ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...