Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like ...

Astronomers using MeerKAT have detected the most distant and powerful "cosmic laser" ever observed, offering new insights ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

When worlds collide…suns act squirrely. Astronomers have witnessed a rare and violent cosmic crash between two planets, and ...

Astronomers warn as 1 million AI-powered Starlink satellites rival starlight. Explore how orbiting data centers threaten deep ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

A leading light in the world of astronomy has been named as the victim of a fatal car crash in a Subaru in Oxfordshire.