Growing up in Midland, Nikki Nielsen didn't imagine she would be traveling around the world, let alone making breakthrough ...

Astronomers on Maunakea on Hawai‘i Island have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million ...

Sorry, but it’s not a UFO cover-up. Some alien hunters and extraterrestrial enthusiasts will be disappointed to learn that ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen — at 23 million light-years in length, they are as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies laid end to end. The enormous jet pair, ...

Black hole jets spanning 23 million light-years total length in outer space have been discovered by a Caltech-led team of ...

For decades, astronomers have seen the "before" and "after" of this process — when a planet is orbiting very close to its ...

Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Eventually, about 8 billion years from now, the sun's outer layers will have ...

In about five billion years, our Sun will exit its main sequence phase and transition to its red giant phase. At this point, ...

What will happen to Earth when our Sun burns out? A newly discovered planetary system 4,000 light-years away might hold the ...

M. Keck Observatory, to witness the turbulent, star-bursting galactic core forming millions of stars at a ferocious rate. The data collected during their five day run in Hawaii offers important clues ...

A rocky exoplanet located 4,000 light years away provides a possible preview of the Sun and Earth's fate 8 billion of years ...

NASA has awarded a five-year Cooperative Agreement with the California Association for Research in Astronomy to continue the science program at Keck Observatory. "The Keck Observatory has unique, ...