On June 9, 2021, my colleagues and I announced the discovery of 535 fast radio bursts that we detected using...
Squinting through their telescopes at the twinkling heavens, few 19th century astronomers would have imagined the cosmic wonders awaiting discovery...
It’s hard to see more than a handful of stars from Princeton University, because the lights from New York City,...
Forty years ago, astronomers using sensitive new imaging techniques discovered a class of large, faint galaxies they named low-surface-brightness galaxies....
A new discovery could soon be raising the total number of confirmed magnetars to 25. On 3 June, a brief...
A huge cluster of stars has been found lurking in the Milky Way, just a relatively short cosmic distance from...
A team of Leiden astronomers has managed to calculate the first 100 million years of the history of the Oort...
A newly discovered repeating fast radio burst (FRB) named FRB 20200120E is deepening the mystery of these already deeply mysterious...
The popular conception goes that nothing can escape from a black hole. Once something passes the event horizon – the...
In 29 new scientific papers, the Dark Energy Survey examines the largest-ever maps of galaxy distribution and shapes, extending more...
Astronomers have created the most comprehensive map yet of all the dark matter in the universe. That’s no easy feat,...
The center of the Milky Way is a strange and wild place. There dwells our galactic nucleus – a supermassive...
