Astronomers using radio telescope observations to get an inside look at an interstellar comet have gleaned new insights into ...

Just over 40 years ago, in his novel Contact, astronomer Carl Sagan imagined what it would be like to detect radio signals ...

Astronomers can use telescopes to find specific molecules in the atmospheres of neighboring planets, in nebulae – clouds of ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

Researchers developed a novel long-range detection and localization system that can identify interfering transmitters in radio quiet zones.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially named Asteroid 2006 BT282 as Asteroid Shostak, honoring Dr. Seth ...

By peering deep inside Orion's star-forming gas clouds, radio astronomers have been able to directly measure the masses of ...

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...

A global team of astronomers has produced the first image that captures both the glowing ring of matter around a supermassive ...

These targets will guide observations with current and future facilities, including the James Webb Space Telescope and ...

When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it ...

Astronomers directly measured the power of jets from black hole Cygnus X-1, confirming decade-old UW–Madison predictions ...