Scientists spotted the heavy water (which we'll get into in just a moment) in the planet-forming disk of gas and dust around ...

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 ...

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

A mysterious diffuse glow of gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way has stumped researchers for decades, as they’ve tried to discern whether the light comes from colliding particles of dark ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in a star. It is likely a direct descendant of one of the universe's first ...

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

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