When Comet 3I/ATLAS entered our solar system last year—only the third known interstellar object to do so—astronomers took ...

Scientists from the Telescope Array Collaboration have detected an ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray, a discovery that’s challenging our current understanding of exotic cosmic phenomena and their origins.

The Moon’s surface has been sampled, scanned, and photographed for decades, yet one of the most basic questions about it ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used simulations to show that a newly developed, compact X-ray telescope ...

TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf with seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. (Photo digital Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images) Scientists have just completed an extensive search for signs of ...

Targeting star systems identified by Kepler Space Telescope (especially those in habitable-zone candidate planets). Surveying a region near the Milky Way’s Galactic Center (where stellar density is ...

Construction has started on the largest telescope array on Earth. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will contain hundreds of radio antennae spread across two continents, is now under ...

The BlackGEM array will search in visible light for mergers of black holes and neutron stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

The Telescope Array has detected the second-highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed, marking a significant milestone in astrophysics. This groundbreaking discovery follows the famed Oh-My-God particle ...

In 1991, an experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God particle, the cosmic ray’s energy shocked astrophysicists. Nothing in our galaxy had the power ...