Astronomers want to explore a time before the stars and galaxies during the dawn of the cosmos with the UK-led CosmoCube ...

Stars don't form out of nothing, but tracking the gas and dust that do eventually form stars is hard. They float around the galaxy at almost absolute zero, emitting essentially no light, and generally ...

An international team of astronomers report the discovery of a long-period radio transient, which is unusually circularly ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

A surprising discovery at the heart of the Milky Way is forcing scientists to rethink how massive structures called Fermi ...

Every time you take off from Heathrow, land at JFK, or pass through any major airport, you might be inadvertently announcing ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that ...

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

A proposed satellite mission aims to orbit the far side of the Moon to detect faint radio signals from the universe’s cosmic ...