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

To solve the Milky Way mystery, de Ruiter devised a method to identify radio pulses lasting seconds to minutes within the ...

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

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

In a new, groundbreaking discovery that has captivated the astronomy community, scientists have confirmed the presence of not ...

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

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 ...

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

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy 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 ...

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 ...