This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

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In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ad 355 space flyers, the program completed 135 missions. Today, Atlantis is ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now a research team has studied hundreds ...

Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

An aspiring naval officer Olivia Achenbach from the United States Naval Academy has unveiled surprising characteristics of ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...

Traveling to the Washington Coast and looking for a place to stay that is steeped in history with accents of the present and ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...