As a kid, you daydream about the kind of job you'd like to have as you get older. And unsurprisingly, what makes a suitable ...

Astronomers have detected the first “heartbeat” of a newborn star within a cosmic explosion, revealing a rapidly spinning magnetar and reshaping the understanding of gamma-ray bursts.

Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/P.Vosteen. In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected powerful radio signals from a ...

A Douglas County native who is an associate professor of astronomy at California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, recently received a large grant to continue his studies and work with black holes ...

Planet Y may orbit closer than ‘Planet Nine’ A hidden planet could explain tilted KBO orbits New study suggests a rocky world like Earth ...

Twin radio rings detected around galaxy 7 billion light-years away Citizen scientists helped identify the most distant odd radio circle ORCs may reveal how galaxies and black holes co-evolve ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) as they encircle the giant planet. But smaller ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as circumstantial evidence accumulates and the list of candidates grows, the discovery of ...

An unusual double-ring structure spotted in space with the help of citizen scientists has turned out to be a cosmic rarity. The celestial anomaly, captured by a radio telescope, is an odd radio circle ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...