Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better ...

Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion's origins and power are ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

A new AI-powered tool has reduced astronomers' workload by 85%—filtering through thousands of data alerts to identify the few ...

Astronomers worldwide are tracking 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object, currently traversing our solar system.

A Kenosha astronomer has uncovered a piece of astronomy history — a telescope once thought to be lost forever.

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

The newly discovered pulsar orbits its companion once every 19 hours, but instead of a smooth circle, the orbit is stretched ...

Several well-known meteorite discoveries are still a mystery. Avi Loeb’s interpretation of some meteorite debris possibly being of alien origin is controversial, because peer‑reviewed analyses point ...

"Being an astronomer today is like being an explorer hundreds of years ago," Lada explains. "Scientists are constantly discovering new things, and you never know what you’re going to find next in a ...