In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), now under construction in the Chilean Andes, is set to revolutionize the field of ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

A distant gamma-ray burst has led astronomers to a rare supernova from the Universe’s early years, revealed by JWST. But why ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

The Geminids peak when the moon is 30 percent full, according to the International Meteor Organization. To get a hint at when ...

The Würzburg-led research unit “Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxies” has been investigating the powerful plasma beams emitted by supermassive black holes since 2021. Now the DFG has extended its ...

The Hubble tension is especially troubling because it involves two sets of measurements that offer conflicting views of the ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.

New images reveal that stellar eruptions unfold in chaotic stages, with twisting outflows and late ejections that power ...

One of the largest rotating structures ever reported has been found by astronomers - a “razor-thin” string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic filament, 140 million light-years away. The ...