Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Scientists track intense radio signals from space to their origin – and are shocked by what they find - ‘Just when you think ...

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

Chile's Atacama Desert is home to some of the best Earth-based observatories, though an energy company is throwing a wrench ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

Astronomers have struggled with finding ultra-faint dwarf galaxies far enough from the Milky Way's influence, making these ...

An international team led by astronomers at Leiden University has shown in laboratory experiments that sulfur can bind with ...