Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...

Nearly 800 million light-years away, something has been forming. Scientists aren't exactly sure what it is but have dubbed it 'the black neutron star.' And now, it's headed for Earth. What is this ...

From galaxies to the Sun, new research explains how turbulent motion can produce large-scale magnetic fields that remain ...

All told, GPM J1839-10 has the potential to be the missing link between long-period transients and white dwarf pulsars ...

In the final moments before two neutron stars collide, their magnetic fields spiral into chaos, twisting and snapping as they ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

On the night of Feb. 2, skywatchers in eastern North America can see the moon occult Regulus — a rare event visible to the naked eye.

The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1.