A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way may actually be the first evidence for an elusive "dark" phenomenon, new ...

A Douglas County native who is an associate professor of astronomy at California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, ...

A new paper presents a method for distinguishing between different sources of nanohertz gravitational waves. Pulsars may be revealing faint ripples in the fabric of the universe, ultra–low-frequency ...

Astronomers recorded the longest gamma-ray burst in history, GRB 250702B, that may be a cosmic event completely new to ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...

Johns Hopkins researchers may have identified a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A ...

This festive season, as we adorn ourselves with gold and silver, few realise that these precious metals were born in the ...

Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves. A team from Hirosaki University suggests these signals might carry “beats” — patterns formed by ...

In the Crab Nebula, a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar (white dot near the center), powers the dramatic activity seen by Chandra. The inner X-ray ring is thought to be a shock wave that marks ...

Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen by ...