A radio telescope has observed a peculiar and complex activity of a magnetar located roughly 8,000 light years away from the Earth. A magnetar is a neutron star that has an incredibly strong ...

Skygazers have been waiting for over a year to see a recurrent nova that creates a temporary, super-bright star every 80 years or so. A new study suggests that it could finally happen this week — but ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

have caught sight of hundreds of mysterious flashes of light reflecting off our planet over the course of a year. What could they be? Reflections of sunlight glinting off oceans? A really ...