A strange X-ray beacon from deep space has revived a decades-old mystery and opened a window onto one of the universe’s most ...

The cosmos has a way of rewriting its own rulebook, and a single blast of high-energy light has just forced astronomers back ...

(The REPORTER) — “Being able to see those cosmic objects that are millions and millions of miles away is very, very fascinating for me,” local astrophotographer Sid Krishnamoorthi said. We often ...

There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. And with this new research, scientists have improved our understanding of these elusive free-floating ...

In a discovery that has astronomers both captivated and perplexed, a mysterious perfectly-spherical object, dubbed "Teleios," has been detected in the vast expanse of deep space. Discovered and ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is identified as the brightest deep-sky object, with a magnitude of 0.1. The list comprises 26 deep-sky objects ranked by brightness, primarily open clusters, stellar ...

The ESA's JUICE probe has for the first time photographed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in an active state, revealing a glowing ...

A transmit antenna at Site 1 of the Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) in Western Australia is shown at night. Credit: Doug Humphries, BAE Systems WASHINGTON — A new deep-space radar site in ...

In the quiet darkness of his Mount Tabor backyard in Southeast Portland, Josh Romberg carefully points his 4-foot telescope at the North Star. Unlike amateur astronomers of decades past, he isn’t ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class of ...