Astronomers have detected rare radio waves from a binary star system, challenging previous ideas about their origins. These ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

Nestled in the remote highlands of Potter County, Cherry Springs State Park offers something increasingly rare in our modern world – a chance to see the night sky as our ancestors did, ablaze with ...

Cherry Springs, isolated atop its mountain and surrounded by the 265,000-acre Susquehannock State Forest, remained a haven of darkness. In 2000, the park was designated as Pennsylvania’s first Dark ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours. Their findings means we know it isn't just neutron stars that emit such ...

Radio astronomers have discovered an unusual phenomenon in recent years. They detected radio pulses from the Milky Way that last from seconds to minutes. These pulses differ from those produced by ...

A new study looking at observations by the JWST of the early universe has thrown up a new and intriguing mystery; the majority of galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction. This finding, ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...