For decades, astronomers have looked to the outer reaches of the cosmos for answers to our most fundamental questions: Where ...

Radio astronomy opens a window onto the invisible universe. While our eyes can detect visible light, countless objects in ...

A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been busy, and honestly, it’s like getting a whole new set of eyes on the universe.

A new look at radio maps of the sky shows a pronounced tilt, called a dipole, that astronomers are still unable to explain ...

ORCs are vast, faint rings of radio energy that surround galaxies and can be detected only in radio wavelengths of the ...

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

So how many stars are there? Given all of the above, astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains around 100 billion ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

Astronomers have caught a blast of hot wind streaming from the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A*, for the first time ...