Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...

Students at the University of Manchester in the UK have created a 30,500-piece LEGO model of the iconic Lovell Telescope to ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...