Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion's origins and power are ...

A Kenosha astronomer has uncovered a piece of astronomy history — a telescope once thought to be lost forever.

Yet much of the dust endures, likely cocooned by protective cooler gas pockets, according to the statement. Observing these ...

The newly discovered pulsar orbits its companion once every 19 hours, but instead of a smooth circle, the orbit is stretched into a long oval. Its unusual orbit makes the system very rare ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, together with international collaborators, have developed a new electron ...

A new AI-powered tool has reduced astronomers' workload by 85%—filtering through thousands of data alerts to identify the few ...

Oconee County resident Susan Vizurraga has written an historical fiction novel on a little-known female astronomer.

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

Several well-known meteorite discoveries are still a mystery. Avi Loeb’s interpretation of some meteorite debris possibly being of alien origin is controversial, because peer‑reviewed analyses point ...

Astronomers worldwide are tracking 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object, currently traversing our solar system.