To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

The International Astronomy Center (IAC) has announced that Tuesday, (January 20, 2026), would mark the start of the month of Sha'ban.

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

Researchers at Maynooth University have uncovered evidence to suggest smaller black holes – in the right conditions – can become massive.

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

Students often asked questions in their local languages. Stanley had to learn quickly, not just the language but also ...

Stargazers are about to have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...