A mysterious gamma-ray glow from the Milky Way's center has reignited debate over dark matter, as scientists weigh whether it ...

A new study explores how eccentric warm Jupiters - giant exoplanets with unusual oval orbits - form, offering clues about the ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of cosmic object in the Universe.

For decades, astronomers have looked to the outer reaches of the cosmos for answers to our most fundamental questions: Where ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

Two students have engineered a fix to improve the imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope interferometer. They did this ...

YouTuber Steve Mould found a weird effect with chains. It needed testing in space, and that's where astronaut Don Pettit ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of gravity. The discovery is an important step toward the observation of dark matter ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in the distant universe — and its size has them fascinated.

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...