A computer-based study is simulating the behaviour of massive cosmic jets in a virtual universe to help us understand how ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...

While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...

Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early ...

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...

"History shows us that whenever you do open a new 'energy window,' you never really know what you're going to find. It's completely unexplored." ...

Enjoy a free stargazing lecture followed by a Q&A panel and guided stargazing with telescopes (weather permitting). By ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...