Scientists have found a quasar spewing a gigantic radio jet in space at a time in the early universe when such objects are ...

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 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 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.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

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

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

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