"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

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Pope Francis is being treated for a “polymicrobial infection.” Doctors say it is caused by multiple pathogens, including bacteria, fungi or parasites. Batter baths, half-and-half, and rock-star grill ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

This updated version of "the Pale Blue Dot," made for the photo's 30th anniversary in 2020, uses modern image-processing software and techniques to ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) recently tested the technology , which works by using sunlight instead of ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Researchers have announced results from a new search at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser (European XFEL) Facility at ...

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

How do you cool down a phoenix? I don't mean the mythological birds of flame and rebirth, but rather a cosmic namesake with a fittingly fiery nature.