Astronomy

Earth is getting a new world map that more accurately depicts how much land countries contain — but surprisingly similar issues plague interplanetary mapmakers, too.

Using the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, scientists are on the hunt for quantum black holes smaller than atoms.

We're one step closer to interstellar weather forecasting.

Scientists have created a video reconstruction of the high-energy jets of a blazar, a supermassive black hole blasting plasma straight at Earth.

McGetchin crater formed some time in 2024 and is as wide as two football fields.

Astronomers have studied nine local galaxies to discover how shock waves from the galaxies' central supermassive black holes sculpt star formation.

"Neutrinos are not a side detail in supernovas."

Sakurai's Object has entered a new stage of its evolution with the "born again" star shedding material in a powerful stellar wind extending over a region similar in size to our solar system.

To solve the mystery of strange "Little Red Dot" objects spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have looked at the bigger picture, studying their host galaxies.