W ith more sightings of the northern lights across the U.S. than usual in recent years, now is an excellent time to make the trek to a Dark Sky Place. Even if you don't see the ra ...

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar ...

Recent research unlocks new clues that could radically change the world's understanding of the origin of dark matter.

In 2023, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory confirmed high-energy neutrinos from the Milky Way, marking a new era in astronomy.

Dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to make up most of the universe's mass, has puzzled scientists for nearly a century. First proposed by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort ... This groundbreaking ...

Ultraviolet light reveals new information about the FU Orionis' mechanisms. In 1936, the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) ...

Assuming intelligent aliens have used AI for thousands or even millions of years, experts think it may have grown to ...

A series of "red monsters" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are complicating our accepted ideas about the ...

Back in the 1960s, Frank Drake, an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist, proposed an equation aimed at estimating the ...

Despite decades of study, black holes are still one of the most puzzling objects in the Universe. As we know from Einstein’s ...

Called Olbers’ paradox, the seemingly simple mystery of the sky’s darkness is something that stumped astronomers for ...