Astronomers have finally traced a strange class of radio signals—long a cosmic mystery—to a binary star system made up of a ...

For the first time in nearly a century, Earth’s night sky may soon be lit up by one of nature’s rarest celestial events: a ...

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s ...

A decade-long radio mystery has finally been solved: astronomers have linked repeating pulses to a white dwarf and red dwarf ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Cherry Springs, isolated atop its mountain and surrounded by the 265,000-acre Susquehannock State Forest, remained a haven of ...

Cherry Springs State Park sits quietly in Potter County, an 82-acre pocket of darkness that’s become the astronomy enthusiast’s equivalent of finding a golden ticket to Wonka’s factory. While millions ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star, one of our closest stellar neighbours.