Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For the first time, astronomers have observed a disc around a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Scientists have discovered something mysterious in space. According to a new study shared on a preprint website, scientists have discovered an extragalactic structure inside an area of space known as ...

The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio signals from space. Reading time 2 minutes For lovers of cool astronomy ...

An international team of astronomers led by Durham University and including astronomers at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre has reported the first detection of a rotating disc structure around a ...

The star S0–6 appears to have traveled 50,000 light-years from a now-extinct galaxy to reach the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

One of the toughest parts of the universe to observe is the ominously-named “zone of avoidance” (ZoA), the relatively uncharted region of the sky obscured by our own Milky Way galaxy. But in new ...

A research team of Chinese astronomers has recently discovered 1,547 compact galaxies in the LAMOST DR9, of which 1,417 are newly discovered and include a large sample of Green Pea, Blueberry and ...

New Horizons has opened our eyes to the beauty and complexity of Pluto, and now it has delivered some unique cosmic data that would be next to impossible to obtain from Earth. The NASA spacecraft, ...

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe they’ve discovered the first extragalactic planet ever observed by humans. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way: An ...