If you've been following exoplanet research over the last couple of years, you've definitely heard of K2-18b. Located 124 ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Astronomers have detected the radio afterglow of a powerful space explosion that went unseen, possibly an orphan gamma-ray burst or a rare blackhole event 1.7 billion light-years away ...

"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

Indian astronomers have investigated an ultraluminous X-ray pulsar in the galaxy NGC 4631, designated X-8. The new study, described in a paper published Feb. 16 on the arXiv preprint server, provides ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might have formed after a collision with a lost moon, according to new research.

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...

Astronomers used the VLA and MeerKAT radio telescopes to search the Hycean exoplanet K2-18b for alien technosignatures, analyzing millions of signals but finding no confirmed artificial radio transmis ...

A software system has begun sending out alerts about moving asteroids, exploding stars and other phenomena detected by the Rubin Observatory.

The environmental impact of SpaceX's planned gargantuan mega-constellation is still being grappled with, but the FCC isn’t ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a large star and strewn its contents into space," according to NASA. Credit: ...

Scientists from IIT Kanpur and NCRA Pune have developed a groundbreaking method to measure distances between Earth and ...