The Webb Telescope may have witnessed the birth of a supermassive black hole, revealing a faster path for these cosmic giants.

When the world first saw the glowing orange ring of a black hole, it was not just a pretty picture. It was the visual proof ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

WHAT DOES IT TAKE to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

After two decades of quiet data processing on millions of crowd-sourced home computers, the SETI@home project has narrowed ...

What does it take to detect a radio signal sent by extraterrestrial life to Earth? Two decades of work involving radio ...

The search for extraterrestrial life in this vast universe needs all hands on deck. A crowd-sourced project from UC Berkeley ...

The Great Red Spot is a gigantic storm, twice the size of Earth, that has swirled for centuries. It’s just one of many on the ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

January is the best time of the year to see the Great Orion Nebula as it climbs high overhead in the winter sky. Look to the ...

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...