Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic ...

A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...

Using a huge radio telescope, we spotted a blindingly fast flash of radio waves that appeared to be coming from somewhere ...

Some theories suggest they are produced by “magnetars” – the highly magnetised cores of massive, dead stars – or arise from ...

Although most of these radio signals emanate from deep space and are not thought to be technological in origin, the burst of ...

Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in 1964 from Cape Canaveral ...

Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a range of powerful ...

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

An object astronomers initially thought to be a high-speed burst of radio waves from deep space last year has been revealed ...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses a telescope with the largest digital camera ever built, has revealed its first ...