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

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

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

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

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star.

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

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Oei is the lead author of a new study, which includes data from W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, published in the journal Nature. The jet megastructure, nicknamed Porphyrion after a giant in ...

Astronomers have identified the largest black hole jet structure known, named Porphyrion, stretching 23 million light-years ...

The scientists then used the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawai'i to determine that Porphyrion originates 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. "What else do we know about this galaxy and its central black ...

It wasn’t long ago that she went to Hawaii’s Keck Observatory, atop the Mauna Kea volcano, to reach for herself. She reached about 270 million light years to be exact and took the highest ...