A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

The mystery radio pulses were picked up about 25 miles (40 kilometers) above Earth by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

Astronomers already knew that 39 pulsars call Terzan 5 home. With the teamwork of the U.S. National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF GBT) and the South African Radio Astronomy ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

April 19, 2005 A. collision between another galaxy and our own 5 billion years ago may have spawned the stars in the outer Milky Way, say astronomers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel ...

said Ananda Hota from the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), Taiwan. ... “This is probably the most exotic galaxy with a black hole ever seen.

A nearby exoplanet has an atmosphere that might be similar to Earth's before life evolved. Researchers have now simulated three-dimensional exotic clouds on another world.

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the same time it's shooting out radio waves.

Credit: Nature Astronomy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-023-02188-2 A large international team of astronomers has discovered the smallest known star to date, and found that it is paired with another ...

The Japanese space agency, JAXA, lost communication with its new Hitomi X-ray astronomy satellite on Saturday and spent Sunday trying unsuccessfully to reestablish control over the spacecraft.

But it’s not a water-world in the sense of splashing oceans and Kevin Costner: Scientists suspect that the planet’s interior is filled with some exotic, high-pressure form of solid H2O unlike ...