Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

Astronomers detected both X-ray and radio pulses from a single mysterious space object, known as ASKAP J1832-0911, every 44 ...

New research challenges the idea the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide, reshaping our understanding of galactic ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly magnetized dead star like a neutron or white dwarf, Curtin University’s ...

Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend ... In earlier work, Rice identified an unexpectedly large number of binary systems ...