Astronomers have finally traced a strange class of radio signals—long a cosmic mystery—to a binary star system made up of a ...

For the first time in nearly a century, Earth’s night sky may soon be lit up by one of nature’s rarest celestial events: a ...

As well as some of the darkest skies on the U.S. East Coast, it's also the nation's southernmost point. At 24.5 degrees north ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

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The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as ...

One Reddit user was shocked by the Google AI's ridiculous underestimation of the number of stars in the universe.

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Venus will be visible in the morning and evening for a short period of time - a rare dual visibility that won't happen again ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, ...