Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have released an incredible image of the Milky Way shining in low-frequency radio light, revealing a spectacular realm ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black ...

For most of its journey 3I/ATLAS has been frozen solid, but the warming rays of our Sun are enough to unfreeze some of its gases such as carbon dioxide, generating a faint cometary tail. For a period ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...

Very early dark energy (vEDE) may have accelerated the universe’s expansion just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, new ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

io9’s monthly list of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror releases returns, and while it may not be as long as our round-ups from ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explores the evolution of spiral galaxy UGC 10043 through images taken 23 years apart, in 2000 ...