On a volcanic island under some of the darkest skies on Earth, I rediscovered the night sky and came home with a new view of our universe.

Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense ...

A puzzling discovery in NGC 1068 shows a flood of neutrinos but weak gamma rays. Scientists now suspect helium atoms ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth discusses a process called r-process nucleosynthesis in a ...

Scientists have found a neutrino that could come from a gamma-ray burst, an active black hole or a collision between a cosmic ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revealed that some of ... it was first discovered in the year 2008 by NASA's Swift Observatory as intense flashes of gamma rays in the outer area ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory consists of 5,160 ... The IceCube neutrino telescope detected very energetic neutrinos coming from NGC 1068 accompanied by a weak gamma-ray flux, hinting that these ...

Among the wreckage of the Milky Way — where the violent deaths of stars usually leave chaos and crumpled shells — astronomers ...

Lu Lu looks forward to the next two decades of neutrino astrophysics, exploring the remarkable detector concepts needed to ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory recently detected something unusual coming from the Squid Galaxy, officially known as NGC ...

The spacecraft, called the Space Variable Objects Monitor, or SVOM, is a combination of small telescopes. It was placed in a ... several spacecrafts including NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and ...