For more than a decade, astronomers quietly watched the most precise clocks in the cosmos, waiting for a barely perceptible ...

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Astronomers have conducted the largest observational study of runaway stars, along with rotation and binarity in the Milky Way. The research reveals how these 'fugitives' are launched into space.

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers in the United Arab Emirates have issued important guidance indicating when exactly Ramadan is likely to begin.

On September 1, 1859, Carrington was observing the Sun when he witnessed the most powerful event ever recorded. It bears his ...