A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of ...

Astronomers have used a new method to weigh the ultramassive black hole. They hope this will help them better understand how ...

Scientists may have found the hiding place of missing cosmic sulfur—in icy space dust, bound in crown-shaped and chain-like molecules that escape detection. For years, scientists studying the ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma ...

From Bohemian solutions and binary battles to new parameters and novel experiments, the dark matter vs MOND clash rages on ...

Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are growing increasingly concerned that these lights could be blinding us to the ...

For decades, astrochemists have been looking for sulfur atoms in space and finding surprisingly little of the element that is a key ingredient to ...

A planetary conjunction takes place when two or more planets seem to align closely in the sky as viewed from Earth, despite ...

In short, the corona is the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere. The corona is usually obscured by bright light from the surface of the sun. This makes it difficult to see without using special ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights into magnetic fields and gas ...

On August 11, 2025, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb sparked global intrigue by proposing that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, by NASA’s ATLAS telescope in Chile, may be ...

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered a new fast radio burst, which ...