GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have ...

There is something inherently terrifying about a supermassive black hole hurtling through space at an excess of three million kilometers per hour. As a hint, the acronym “RBH” stands for “runaway ...

An illustration of the collision. (Andy Tzanidakis) A distant star whose light suddenly flickered like a guttering candle has ...

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and deeply obscured. The James Webb Space Telescope, which can peer through gas ...

Humanity has intercepted a mysterious signal described as a 'mega-laser' beam coming from deep space. Astronomers have called ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere, is being reshaped by a ...

Astronomers witnessed planets colliding 11,000 light-years away, an event that could shed light on the collision that created Earth's moon.

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

Astronomers detect a laser-like signal coming from colliding galaxies 8 billion light-years away. A cosmic mystery.