An alien signal, reverberating in the vacuum of space, that was picked up on Earth has been confirmed to be coming from an ...

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

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Deep beneath Earth’s surface, two massive structures—dubbed low-shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—are reshaping scientists’ ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

The starburst galaxy NGC 1569 glows brilliantly, illuminated by the light of millions of newly formed young stars. This image of LH63, cloaked in red, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a ...

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A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society ...

Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...

As space expanded, everything spread out and cooled. Nowadays, the universe is not only huge but also cold in its average ...