Radio astronomers have detected radio pulses from a source that appears to send a signal in our direction every 14 minutes, ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by the ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder) radio telescope, which has captured a mysterious signal originating from an object located about 15 ...

An international team of astronomers report the discovery of a long-period radio transient, which is unusually circularly polarized and showcases an accelerating spin period. The finding of the new ...

A mystery interstellar object has been identified as the "oldest comet ever seen", according to scientists. The Oxford ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s vast, super-hot Fermi bubbles—structures thought to be created by a recent, ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.

Back in 2010, scientists spotted something shocking: a pair of gigantic, glowing lobes of gas bursting from the Milky Way’s ...

A surprising discovery at the heart of the Milky Way is forcing scientists to rethink how massive structures called Fermi ...