The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Astronomers have finally traced a strange class of radio signals—long a cosmic mystery—to a binary star system made up of a ...

A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...

Part of the worlds biggest mega-science facility the SKA Observatory is being built in outback Western Australia. After ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

GS-z14-0, was first identified by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) last year. It is so far away that its light took 13.4 billion years to reach Earth, meaning it existed when the universe was jus ...

Oxygen has been detected in the most distant galaxy ever discovered, surprised astronomers said yesterday, offering further ...

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