You wouldn’t expect the cosmos to come to a small town in rural Manitoba. The cosmos, frankly, has better places to be.

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

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Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

Elliptical galaxies instead tend to be older, more massive, and with stars distributed not in a nice little disk, but in a ...

Astronomers have taken their clearest look yet at how some of the biggest stars in our galaxy are born—and it turns out the ...

The object was detected by observing how its gravity distorts light behind it. Astronomers have discovered an extremely faint ...

A new look at radio maps of the sky shows a pronounced tilt, called a dipole, that astronomers are still unable to explain ...

Driving rapid innovation in the American space industry, NASA has awarded Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, a contract to raise a spacecraft’s orbit. Katalyst’s robotic servicing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a cornerstone of modern astronomy, has been providing breathtaking images and invaluable data for ...