Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift Observatory and other telescopes. A kilonova is a "the afterglow ...

Scientists think they have finally found evidence for the existence of a cosmic object that has only existed in theory. Dark ...

For centuries, humans have sought to study the stars and celestial bodies, whether through observations made by naked eye or ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University believe they have found the evidence for dark matter they have been searching for.

NASA has awarded Katalyst $30 million to move forward with implementation under a Phase III award as an existing participant in NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, managed by the ...

Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA's Swift Observatory, which has been hunting for gamma-ray bursts from low Earth orbit for more than two decades.

The IceCube observatory detects possible sources of neutrinos in the galaxy NGC 1068, reinforcing the search for the origin ...

Astronomers have identified an enormous 'growth spurt' in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit ...

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

It's a celestial event that has astronomers both excited and puzzled. Dan Smith has the story of how a gamma-ray burst across ...