As the annual Perseid meteor shower approaches its dazzling peak, skywatchers might have to work a little harder to spot the show this year.

Every August, the Perseid meteor shower draws millions of eyes to the night sky. This year’s peak, set for the night of ...

From 400 kilometers above the planet’s surface, NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a rare long-exposure photograph taken ...

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

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

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

A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns—10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way —has been discovered around 5 billion light-years from Earth. It may be the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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