Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) – the “sound of the Big Bang” – support the idea of a local void. Gabriela Secara, ...

When you hear the phrase "bird brain," you probably imagine someone forgetful or silly. After all, we often joke about how ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika Koulen, Stefano Profumo, and Nolan Smyth from the University of California ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

Scientists have found evidence that the human brain, of all things, possesses faint luminescent properties.

Scientist explains Beacon in the Galaxy project One of the lead scientists on a proposal to beam an updated "hello" message to possible extraterrestrial intelligence explains how it works. A new ...

The star-snacking black hole gave itself away when several ground-based sky survey telescopes observed a flare as bright as a supernova. But unlike a supernova, astronomers know that this came from a ...