Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a ...

A strange "chirping" signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe's brightest stellar explosions ...

At the outer reaches of our solar system, astronomers have stumbled upon a perplexing icy object known as 2002 XV93, and it ...

Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory has begun an 10-year survey to create a new inventory of our solar system and the Milky Way, and chip away at the mystery of dark matter.

Comets have played an interesting role in the history of astronomy. Since antiquity, many cultures saw them as omens or ...