Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

Guided by fast radio bursts, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics have mapped how ordinary matter is distributed in the ...

With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The observatory will continue the legacy of its ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, revealing hundreds of previously unseen celestial ...

Of the 69 FRBs used by the team, 39 were discovered by a network of 110 radio telescopes located at Caltech's Owen Valley ...

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

Half of ordinary matter in universe has long been 'missing.' Astronomers just found it. Revelations made possible by studying radio waves hurtling through space suggest that violent cosmic forces ...

Rapid bursts of energy that last milliseconds but emit as much energy as the sun does in decades are helping astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ...

Since the 19th century, the Smithsonian Institution has conducted pioneering astrophysical research through the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). As part of the broader Smithsonian, SAO ...

The results, led by Sara Issaoun and Dom Pesce of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, are published in The Astronomical Journal.