"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

The Popular Astronomy Club 2026 astronomy highlights for the year, including a solar eclipse, planetary alignment and more.

For more than three months, a pair of observatories, positioned on either side of the Sun, managed to track an active region ...

In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new stars.

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...

A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe’s biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of its least understood components may be interacting, offering a rare window ...