The Universe has long been cast as effectively immortal, coasting into a cold, dark eternity so distant that it might as well ...

Astronomer Daniel Jaffe has been appointed the next president of the Giant Magellan Telescope Corporation – the international consortium building the $2.5bn Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). He succeeds ...

For centuries, the Ring Nebula has captivated astronomers with its stunning, glowing appearance, but a recent discovery has ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has uncovered the first decisive evidence that at least some fast radio ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

Astronomers are using China's powerful FAST radio telescope to chase after 100 intriguing signals detected by the SETI@home ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

Dark matter, one of the Universe’s greatest mysteries, may have been born blazing hot instead of cold and sluggish as ...

A research team including a UC Riverside astrophysicist and his former graduate student has received the 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for a study that offers new insight into one of the universe’s ...

Aman Priyadarshi Kumar, New Mexico State University astronomy Ph.D. student, didn’t start his graduate studies with solar ...

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a ...

The second International Conference on the on Physics of the Two Infinities gathered nearly 200 participants in Tokyo.