A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

Len Fisher gathered Nobel laureates, leaders in science, philosophers and economists to brainstorm serendipity in science, ...

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star dies.

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the ...

NASA has hailed a mind-boggling image depicting the most distant galaxy we’ve ever seen. It was captured by the James Webb ...

Observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory are providing fresh evidence that the ...

Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have uncovered a major clue in the mystery of how black holes produce ...

The Death Valley Dark Sky Festival is returning to the national park from Feb. 6 through Feb. 8. DarkSky International, a starry-sky conservation and advocacy group fighting against light pollution, ...

All told, GPM J1839-10 has the potential to be the missing link between long-period transients and white dwarf pulsars ...

Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), working with international collaborators, have made a striking discovery involving a previously unknown type of cosmic ...