Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

This hidden matter has been mapped using FRBs, intense millisecond-long pulses from galaxies located far away. With the help of 70 FRBs, which included one from 9 billion light years away, the ...

For roughly the first 100 million years of the universe, there were no stars. This is what we call the "Cosmic Dark Ages". We ...

A routine check for deep space anomalies turned into a rare find much closer to home.

Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an ...

Radar systems emit electromagnetic signals that can travel into space, detectable by powerful radio telescopes.

Using a combination of telescopes, including the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National ...

A new study reveals that a common human technology may be quietly broadcasting our presence to alien civilizations—without us even realizing it.