DID YOU SPOT last night’s rare supermoon? If not, don’t worry — you’ll have another chance to catch it this evening. Last ...
At first glance, it looks like an uneven smudge. But when astronomers enhanced the image, sharp edges appeared — two distinct, intersecting rings centered on a compact galaxy. The rings seem to trace ...
You wouldn’t expect the cosmos to come to a small town in rural Manitoba. The cosmos, frankly, has better places to be.
The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...
Astronomers have found the most distant and energetic “odd radio circle” ever detected — a massive double-ringed radio structure nearly 10 billion years old. The discovery, made with the help of ...
Most distant and powerful odd radio circle ever found - a massive double ring that could reveal how black holes and galaxies ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...
For astrophysicist Mansi Kasliwal, her appointment to the historic Palomar Observatory as the new director was a full-circle ...
Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...
With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered a rare pair of "Odd Radio Circles" overlapping in space.
As a professor in Caltech’s astronomy department for a decade, Mansi Kasliwal first came to the observatory as a graduate ...
A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...