Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with ...

Join us this week as Mike shares what makes Ceres an interesting point of research in our solar system. Astro Brief is a ...

In a recent study, an Italian astronomer has investigated the nature of a binary system known as HD 49798/RX J0648.0–4418.

The Quadrantids meteor shower will have its most vibrant display tonight into early Friday morning, with meteors emanating from the northeast in the direction of the Big Dipper. Partly to mostly ...

Fast radio bursts originate near neutron stars, revealing their magnetically chaotic environments and scintillation patterns.

Every day, several times a day, massive explosions of radio waves burst forth from distant corners of the universe, each ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...

An enigma, a Lawrence resident hides mugs around town every first Saturday of the month in hopes that all will be found. The ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

If the modern age of astronomy could be summarized in a few words, it would probably be “the age of shifting paradigms.” ...

MIT astronomers pinned down the origins of at least one fast radio burst, a brief and brilliant explosion of radio waves emitted by an extremely compact object. The team’s novel technique might also ...