Astronomy

Using the VIMOS instrument (VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph) on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, an international team of...

It must be hard to be an astronomer or astrophysicist--every week, a new discovery (like Swift J0243.6+6124) seems to challenge their...

For years, astronomers have struggled to find what exactly is causing the mysterious phenomenon known as "fast radio bursts:" the...

A new discovery has destroyed astronomers' hopes of accounting for what it is or how it's connected to the observable universe. The...

Step by step, astronomers are growing tantalizingly close to finding the solar system's long-rumored 'Planet Nine' lurking somewhere...

An international team of astronomers have discovered that the entire sky – perhaps the entire universe – is faintly glowing at...

Everyone has something they love about Fall: the changing of the leaves, the sweater weather, or the 1,300-foot wide, skull-shaped...

A few years ago, the Planck survey gave scientists a picture of where dark matter might be lurking across the universe. That survey...

Between the TESS spacecraft's newly discovered pair of exoplanets and Gaia's ability to chart the position and movement of literally...

No matter how you slice it, astronomers have discovered a lot of exoplanets in the Milky Way galaxy--3,779, to be exact--and between...

We've made a lot of discoveries about Oumuamua since it streaked into our solar system last November, but the mystery of its origins...

Despite being a small moon orbiting ten times farther from the Sun than Earth, Titan is strikingly similar to Earth: it has a stable,...

Whether it involves warping space-time so much that you can effectively time travel or bringing a 'dead' star back to life, black...

Last April the ESA Gaia satellite released its first big dump of data, which gave astronomers the brightness, distances, and...

Earlier this week, we got to see the TESS spacecraft's "first light" images – the first photos a telescope takes after being fully...

Last May, NASA's TESS spacecraft (short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) took its first test photo of the cosmos, but...

There's a lot of weird stuff floating around in space, including interstellar grease and at least one asteroid worth about $700...

A while ago, we reported on Sean Raymond's fascinating research into whether Isaac Asimov's fictional planet Kalgash (which was bathed...

Using data from NASA's Kepler Space telescope, a grad school student and an international team of researchers have discovered an...

Astronomers have spotted some pretty amazing (and disturbing) things lurking in the far reaches of the universe, like a huge black...