Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

A mysterious glow on Saturn, captured by amateur astronomer Mario Rana on July 5, 2025, has ignited excitement. The footage ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Recently, astronomers have predicted that this process would create a supernova remnant with two separate shells rich in calcium. SNR 0509-67.5 has these two shells. In the image, they appear as blue.

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...