First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists ...

Think you know your Dyson spheres from your dark blobs? This cosmic crossword dives into the strangest, most mind-bending ...

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope ...

In a field dominated by men and scarce resources, astrophysicist Manisha Dwa has carved out a path of her own. She is working to transform astronomy education in Nepal, empowering students and pushing ...

BHUBANESWAR: The birth anniversary of renowned astronomer Mahamahopadhyay Chandrasekhar Singh Samanta (Pathani Samanta) ...

From the moment she looked through a telescope, Marissa Norlund knew she was an observational astronomer.

Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

A new chapter in astronomy education has begun at Kitt Peak National Observatory with the grand opening of the Windows on the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...