Keith Cooper

How did supermassive black holes form? JWST and Chandra may have found the answer.

X-ray observations from the supernova remnant SN 1006 show its magnetic fields align to accelerate cosmic rays.

Large amounts of dust are being expelled from the Uranus system to settle in the ecliptic plane and contribute to the zodiacal light, a new study suggests.

After nearly 40 years of searching, astronomers have now spotted the infrared northern lights on Uranus.

Over 1.6 million star systems have been scanned by Europe's LOFAR system so far, but E.T. hasn't been caught phoning home yet.

A better understanding of exoplanet orbits is helping SETI astronomers reduce their computational costs and conduct their search for intelligent aliens faster.

Thanks to NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, geologists have discovered evidence for ancient rivers on the Red Planet hiding in plain sight, suggesting the planet once had the right conditions for life.

Improved lighting standards coming into force across the whole of Chile will protect astronomy observations, public health and wildlife.

The Breakthrough Listen initiative has moved its headquarters to the U.K. to take advantage of the reams of data set to come from the Square Kilometer Array.

Almost twice as big (but half as massive) as Jupiter, WASP-17b burns at a temperature of 1,500 degrees Celsius.

Superintelligences might reveal themselves through the technosignatures of their cosmic engineering projects.

We’ve got geophysics to thank for preventing our precious metals from sinking to Earth’s core.

Any potential alien messages could be too complicated for humans to understand, but AI trained to detect complex structure in communication could help decipher them for us.

AI is the way forward in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, from detecting radio signals to finding technosignatures on planets.

The blast of light was 100 times brighter than an ordinary supernova, but it came from intergalactic space between two distant galaxies.

Distant galaxies that existed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang are brighter than expected in JWST images because they were experiencing bursts of intense star formation.

Two new infrared mosaics of the Orion Nebula showcase the JWST's abilities while revealing new insights into this familiar star-forming region.

A supernova that recently exploded in the Pinwheel Galaxy has revealed hitherto unknown information about the final days of the star that exploded.

The radio signals hint at an important evolutionary step in the lives of galaxies.

The Dark Ages are the period of time between the Big Bang and the birth of stars and galaxies.

The findings also corroborate earlier reports that TRAPPIST-1b lacks a thick, hydrogen atmosphere.

The gravitational waves are emitted by ultracompact binaries of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs.

Three teams have progressed through to the final round of the MagQuest Challenge to design a better way of measuring the shifts in the geomagnetic field.