Under the untouched darkness of Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope stands beneath an arching Milky Way.
The back-to-back eruptions caused radio blackouts across two hemispheres as the active sunspots turn to face Earth.
An ultra-high-resolution instrument on board NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has been suffering from blurry vision. AI helped fix the problem.
"The James Webb Space Telescope has opened a new frontier in extragalactic astrophysics, revealing objects we didn't even suspect existed, and we're only at the beginning of this adventure."
"This discovery ends a protracted search for these waves that has its origins in the 1940s."
Scientists have set about discovering if dark matter behaves like ordinary matter in the cosmos, with the answer revealing more about this mysterious "stuff" and casting doubt on the existence of a fifth fundamental force of nature.
Several new missions to Venus are expected in the late 2020s and early 2030s, but some of them depend on funding that may not materialize.
This quiz dives into the mysterious world of dark matter — what we know, what we don't, and how scientists are chasing shadows across the cosmos.
The European Space Agency and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently visited the spiral galaxy NGC 3370
Astronomers have detected the most distant and biggest black hole flare ever seen, the result of a black hole ripping apart and devouring a star 30 times as massive as the sun.
