A team of astronomers has detected a mysterious “heartbeat” signal originating from deep space, capturing the attention of ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust ...

Researchers describe the newly discovered binary system as a cosmic oddball. Stars often reach the end of their lives and fade from view, but astronomers were left baffled when a star that had ...

Researchers have been trying to explain this bizarre radio signal for decades. A new study hones in on its potential source.

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

An automated data-sharing system co-developed by SpaceX and American radio astronomers promises to protect radio telescopes ...

"This result marks a turning point: instead of just detecting these mysterious flashes, we can now see exactly where they're ...

Astronomers captured a glimpse of the innermost layers of a massive star before it exploded in a supernova, changing their ...

Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...

An ‘extremely stripped supernova’ confirms the existence of a key feature of physicists’ models of how stars produce the ...