A newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world, much closer to the Sun than ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

With the aid of a multinational network of telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in the distant universe. It could be dark matter, or it could be something ...

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

Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led some cosmologists to wonder if our universe could have been born in a black hole. Photograph by NASA Goddard Gazing up at the ...

A weird type of galaxy seen in the early universe has now been spotted in a more recent part of the cosmos, raising questions about their true nature. Over the past few years, astronomers using the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed yet another marvel from deep in outer space. A galaxy named MoM-z14 has taken the title of most distant galaxy the telescope has captured. It is a ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely — is ...

What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope? "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" is the first known list of the most ...