Astronomers made a super cool discovery—they found the light that "switched on" the universe! This light comes from when the first stars and galaxies lit up the cosmos billions of years ago. It’s like ...

Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ...

Dubai: A rare cosmic explosion lit up the southern skies over the UAE this weekend, as astronomers at Al Khatim Astronomical ...

Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered how gas and dust in planet-forming disks evolve separately an insight that reshapes our ...

Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during a short-lived, ...

"Today we reveal humankind's first-ever views of the Sun's pole," said Carole Mundell, the ESA's director of science, in a statement. "These new unique views from our Solar Orbiter mission are the ...

Astronomers have uncovered surprising new details about a galaxy that looks like a jellyfish—and even sports a pair of strange “bunny ears.” This galaxy, named NGC 4858, is racing through a distant ...

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic ...

Astronomers have uncovered a bizarre star, ASKAP J1832, that pulses radio waves and X-rays every 44 minutes—thousands of times slower than typical pulsars. This rare object also dims dramatically over ...

The latest cosmic puzzle for scientists comes from the constellation Leo, roughly 240 lightyears from Earth. Astronomers, ...

With the ability to scan the entire southern night sky every three days, the huge Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be about to ...

A cloud of energetic gas lit up by a collision of galaxies spans nearly 20 million light-years, leading astronomers to ...