In my half century as the astronomy columnist or editor for Discover, Astronomy, The Old Farmer’s Almanac, NPR, and this page, I’ve heard the same questions revolving around the origin of the universe ...
The Los Angeles museum presents a spectacular if scattershot show containing over 100 works, ranging from medieval ...
On election night, BYU basketball opened its season, and the Kevin Young Era, by defeating the Central Arkansas Bears 88-50.
Planetary Nebulae (PNe) are emission-line nebulae in a short-lived late stage of stellar evolution for low- to ...
Astronomers have discovered a black hole in the early universe that is consuming matter at an astonishing rate—more than 40 ...
Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.
A recently published study describes an ancient black hole that eats matter far faster than previously thought possible. The discovery could offer a clue as to ...
JWST, a groundbreaking space observatory, enhances our understanding of the cosmos by studying distant galaxies, star ...
Chelsea Manalo, Victoria Velasquez Vincent, Christina Dela Cruz Chalk and Shereen Ahmed have brought a joyful dose of ...
The light from this object has traveled all the way from a time 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Earlier supermassive black holes have been discovered – but none of them can hold a candle to this ...
New research sets the most stringent limit yet on the mass of the graviton, suggesting it may indeed be massless as predicted ...
The farthest background galaxy is so distant that it must have developed in an early phase of the universe, which most scientists think ... which predicted that gravity would bend light; the first ...