A strange X-ray beacon from deep space has revived a decades-old mystery and opened a window onto one of the universe’s most ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth in just over a week from now, coming within 167 million ...

Astronomers found signs that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is radiating a "heartbeat" pulse of light that repeats every 16.16 hours.

Our cosmos seems, at times, like one impossibly vast factory, just pumping out mysteries. The deeper we peer, the more we learn – but each new discovery stirs up a plethora of new puzzles to solve, ...

On a mountaintop in Chile's sprawling Atacama Desert, a new telescope has turned its mechanical eyes to the heavens, stargazing with unprecedented intensity. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will take ...

New research has traced a radio burst from deep in the Milky Way back to its original source. Mark Garlick/University of Warwick/ESO Astronomers are dialed in for this discovery. Researchers for the ...

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space like sand on a beach. Astronomers and engineers at CSIRO, Australia's ...

The International Space Station (ISS) orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it would ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

"If we see the lampshade effect in action, it will tell us about what dark matter could be, which is exciting." Dark matter clumps could act as stellar lampshades, drifting between Earth and distant ...

Now, because none of this expository dialogue is actually in Prometheus, the canonicity of it is a bit wonky. But based on what happens in the movie, it pretty much all checks out. And yet, the ...