Slowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they were discovered in 2022.

Located 13.6 billion light-years away and just 200 million years after the Big Bang, the five galaxy candidates are the ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

International astronomers have observed an unusual supernova that is poor in metals, providing vital clues about the early ...

Vesto Slipher was not well known, but his groundbreaking observations helped uncover one of astronomy’s most fundamental ...

If the sky is dark and the moon is not too bright, and if you know exactly where to look, you can just barely see the ...

The idea was that the gravitational wave background is uniform; there are supermassive black holes merging in so many ...

Researchers Bart Besselink, Else Starkenburg and Jagoda Slawinska of the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) have been ...

We take a look at the current best predictions for what the solar system will look like throughout the rest of the Sun's life ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a surprising new view of a long-studied galactic neighbor, the Sombrero galaxy, ...

Astronomers heading the search for extraterrestrial intelligence predict their quest might first spark an encounter with ...

Webb’s Powerful Mid-Infrared Instrument Resolves Clumpy Nature of Dusty Disk Astronomers are known for their precision, but ...