After detecting a strange combination of signals in the summer of 2025, astronomers believe they may have captured the first ...

Astronomers have confirmed J1218/1219+1035, located about 1.2 light-years away, as the first known triple system where all ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars explode. Astronomers have obtained images of two stellar explosions, called ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos.

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

Visitors to the Sunwheel can see the sun rising and setting over the winter solstice stones from approximately Dec. 16 ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected alignments that challenge models of how galaxies gain their spin. An internation ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have made one of the most precise independent measurements ...