Get up to speed on gamma rays, the radiation responsible for creating the Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World.

The US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the state of Bavaria will build a radio telescope on top of Germany’s highest mountain.

Astronomers have discovered a massive, double-lobed radio jet stretching 200,000 light-years from a quasar that existed when ...

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

Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...

HH 30, a fascinating Herbig-Haro object, serves as a cosmic laboratory for studying star formation and planetary evolution.

By revealing a massive radio jet in the early universe, J1601+3102 offers a rare snapshot of early quasar activity.

At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the universe's ...

Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

Carnegie Mellon University researchers led a study that concluded a shredded star launched a powerful burst of energy toward the Earth.