Stellar-mass black holes can be found anywhere in a galaxy, but the really big ones (known as supermassive black holes) are ...

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I've been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

Observations from the LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) radio telescope last year revealed that the first-generation Starlink ...

The professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who won this year’s Shaw ...

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I’ve been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a groundbreaking technique that transforms 2D radio images into 3D ...

Fifty years ago, the famed Arecibo message was fired into space to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Now is ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! A bald eagle. There! Flying low over the traffic in Richmond on Election Day.

NASA is hoping to send humans back to the Moon in the next couple of years, but now they have announced what exactly those ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the darling of high-energy astrophysics. Famed for providing unequaled x-ray views of ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...