A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.

Bodies have passed through our solar system three times in recent years. The most recent, comet 3I/ATLAS, which is now moving ...

University of Chicago astronomy and astrophysics professor Donald G. York​, who is credited with pioneering contributions to ...

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

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 ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

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

The stellar corpse is spewing star stuff, which is heating and compressing surrounding gas, resulting in a multicolored ...

After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of California Berkeley researchers have identified 100 mysterious, ...