Astronomy

Like a mountain looming over a calm lake, it seems the universe may once have had a perfect mirror image.

SEATTLE — Despite recent issues with one of its instruments, the Hubble Space Telescope is expected to last at least another five years.

Several images, hard X-rays and microwaves of the object officially known as AT2018cow determined that researchers' telescopes captured the exact moment a star collapse and a black hole was formed.

Last June, an incredibly bright supernova known as "The Cow" ripped across the sky, hovering above the Earth for a number of weeks. While The Cow provided significant excitement for astronomers, who learned it traveled 200 million light-years, new research suggests that it is indeed the witness of the birth of a black hole or neutron star, a first in the history of mankind.

The crumbs left over from a supermassive black hole's recent meal have allowed scientists to calculate the monster's rotation rate, and the results are mind-boggling.

An instrument aboard the International Space Station has helped reveal how black holes release brilliant flares of X-rays, a new study finds.

Canadian astronomers have reportedly discovered a repetitive radio signal some 2.5 billion light-years away from Earth, only the second example known to mankind. A telescope in British Columbia, otherwise known as Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), detected 13 pulses, or fast radio bursts (FRBs), in July and August. The first FRB that repeats was detected in 2012.

Canadian astronomers have discovered a repetitive radio signal some 2.5 billion light-years away from Earth — only the second example known to mankind.

Nearly a month after it reached its destination, circling the asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has snapped an incredible image of the Earth.

NASA released a stunning, massive image from the Hubble space telescope of the Triangulum Galaxy, which is 3 million light years from our own Milky Way Galaxy.