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

What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper ...

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

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

"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 ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

Astronomers tend to make a solid living that is comfortably over $100,000 per year, but hefty schooling is required to get to ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn ever year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems ...

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

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