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

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 ...

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

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

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.

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of ...

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