Astronomers have detected rare radio waves from a binary star system, challenging previous ideas about their origins. These ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar ...

BL Lacertae, an enigmatic blazar, has shattered long-held classification norms, leaving astronomers baffled. Originally ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance with another star.

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...