Astronomers have detected and traced the most distant fast radio burst ever recorded, a powerful flash of radio waves that ...

A white dwarf’s unusual chemistry points to a giant planet containing material shed during the star’s death. If confirmed, the system would provide the first evidence of a second-generation planet ...

Intense flash of radio waves is more than 10bn years old and has travelled through ‘approximately 80% of cosmic history’ ...

Scientists discover unique ‘phoenix’ planet that was born from a dying star - World is made up of pieces of a dying sun, ...

At the heart of most large galaxies sits a supermassive black hole. They’re the most massive objects in the universe, ...

NASA has selected the far-infrared space telescope mission PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics) to move to the ...

And, spookily, this shower comes from the ghost of a comet. Biela’s Comet was a regular visitor to skies in the late 1700s ...

Anthropic says a scientist used Claude Science to merge existing data and fill gaps, producing the first complete ultraviolet ...

Fortunately, a waning crescent moon isn’t expected to be bright enough to obscure the shower, in which 10 meteors can streak ...

Neutrinos, often called “ghost particles”, are among the most elusive particles in the universe, passing through matter with ...

Some experts have suggested they may be from an extraterrestrial lifeform trying to contact Earth. The post ‘Extraordinary’ ...

Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of ...