A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught the "echo" of this gamma-ray burst.

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like ...

Astronomers warn as 1 million AI-powered Starlink satellites rival starlight. Explore how orbiting data centers threaten deep ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

Astronomers using MeerKAT have detected the most distant and powerful "cosmic laser" ever observed, offering new insights ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born inside the extreme stellar explosion.

Astronomers have slammed SpaceX and Reflect Orbital plans for unnaturally brightening skies and disrupting ecosystems.

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...