Astronomers at UNC-Chapel Hill studied the longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, uncovering new clues about a mysterious ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

Astronomers are increasingly finding planets that do not simply circle their stars in neat, clockwork ellipses but instead trace out paths that look more like intricate choreography. The latest ...

Using the Large Phased Array (LPA) and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from ...

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could ...

Drawing on the University of Arizona’s renowned strength in interferometry, astronomers from Steward Observatory are leading ...

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Life. But how would we know it? The world of astronomy is abuzz with excitement. Have we discovered the first-ever evidence of off-world life? Is the signal extracted from the interstellar noise a ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered seven supermassive black hole-powered quasars surrounded by veils of dust ...

Across modern astronomy, the most striking pattern is not a single spectacular discovery but a drumbeat of similar clues. Wherever telescopes and probes look with enough sensitivity, they keep turning ...

"Black holes are not as destructive as we thought. It seems plausible that the detection of planets in the galactic center is just a matter of time." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

A mysterious ring invisible at all wavelengths except radio could be a trace of a dramatically unstable star shedding its skin. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...