Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or ...

Abundance of Earth-like Exoplanets The universe has no shortage of similarities to Earth when it comes to celestial ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

The search for life beyond Earth is accelerating, with new telescopes, spacecraft, and missions exploring the universe for ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

The research suggests that the universe has become “messier and more complicated” over time, with a less clumpy distribution of matter.

What can Earth’s technosignatures—the potential signs of intelligence beyond Earth—teach us about finding technosignatures ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...