Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in the distant universe. It could be dark matter, or it could be something ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a well-known ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

Buried in radio data, astronomers found something vast — a galaxy stretching more than 16 million light years. This is the ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

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Galaxies "blazing with technosignatures" could suggest the existence of a "large number" of "different metasocieties." ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...