Across the sky, brief and violent flashes of energy are arriving from far beyond the Milky Way, each one lasting…

A brief, ten second flash from the distant universe has just become one of the most intriguing signals humanity has…

Across the sky, astronomers are stitching together vast samples of galaxies to understand how often supermassive black holes flare, feed,…

A dead star in our galactic neighborhood has produced a shimmering, ringed structure that looks uncannily like a cosmic rainbow,…

NASA’s asteroid trackers have just watched a school‑bus‑sized space rock make a safe, distant pass by our planet, part of…

For decades, the idea of people living on Mars has felt like a distant fantasy, limited by the brutal cost…

Astronomers have identified a strange new object in deep space, a vast cloud that looks like a galaxy stripped of…

The Moon’s most famous “sound” was never heard by human ears. It was traced instead in jagged lines on Apollo-era…

A supermassive black hole in a distant disk galaxy is behaving in a way that defies expectations, carving out a…

Elon Musk is no longer talking only about Mars. He has started to sketch a path that runs from the…