Jupiter is now well up in the east in the early evening, so we're now able to see the two brightest planets (Venus and ...

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...

Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...

This new finding suggests these emissions could be driven by magnetars or binary star systems, marking a significant leap in ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Astronomers have found a link between mysterious fast radio bursts and magnetars within massive star-forming galaxies.

A cutting-edge telescope array is helping scientists to pinpoint the cosmic hotspots where strange radio signals originate.

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