James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Astronomers have recently detected mysterious radio signals emanating from the ancient comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, capturing the ...

Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

The researchers’ reconstruction shows that by mixing four resets at 358 months (the inex cycle) for every one at 223, the ...

Water discoveries in space happen all the time. But this one’s actually a big deal, and not just because some scientists got ...

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

Astronomers observed a massive, multi-temperature plasma eruption from a young Sun-like star, revealing how early solar ...

Astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that a quasi-satellite may be the "relic of an interplanetary mission by humanity from the 1960s ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Astronomers have ...