On a dark and clear night, the sky can seem filled with stars, some shining brighter than others. But a few of those bright ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass ...

Debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off in the United States on February 1 entered the Earth's atmosphere over ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has explored the atmosphere of a nearby ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation. The space telescope recently honed in on protoplanetary disk HH30. It is ...

Fifty million years or so later, gravity drove the formation of the first luminous objects – stars and black holes – which ended the dark ages and initiated the cosmic dawn. These first stars likely ...

Opaque close opaqueA material, object or substance which does not allow light to pass through it. materials are substances which light cannot pass through, like stone, metal or wood. Luminous ...

IT is a familiar observation that when the retinal image is displaced as a result of an externally forced rotation of the eyeball (for example, by light sideways pressure with the finger), the ...