On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them. As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a ...

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely ...

China Einstein Probe EP astronomical satellite has for the first time in human history detected soft X-ray signals from an ...

Scientists from Northwestern University and McGill University have made a discovery that challenges existing theories about ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to produce these types of signals.

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

Large stars have cosmically short lifetimes, so the fact that this FRB occurred in an old, long-dead galaxy means that the ...

Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...

Adam Leroy, a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Henry Draper Medal.

Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens — with screensavers. It ...