New mapping of the Milky Way has uncovered a vast family tree of stellar siblings, revealing that hundreds of star clusters ...

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

According to ESA’s reporting on the study, the wave behaves like ripples expanding from a stone dropped into water, though in ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

On most nights, city skies hide the stars. Streetlights, buildings, and cars fill the air with artificial glow that drowns ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The ...

The shower peaks overnight on 13 and 14 December, but meteors can be seen in the days before and after this. To see them use ...

For decades, scientists have only inferred dark matter’s existence through its gravitational pull on galaxies, but may now ...

A Japanese astronomer believes he has finally captured the first direct glimpse of dark matter, a discovery that, if ...

A researcher identified gamma ray emissions that appear to have originated from dark matter, but other physicists still ...