Bright flashes of enigmatic radio waves have helped illuminate some of the missing matter in the universe, astronomers say in ...

Using fast radio bursts, astronomers have finally located the universe’s missing ordinary matter across billions of ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

When astronomers look at distant objects—far away in both space and time—all too often, dust gets in their eyes. Well, not ...

We know of several hundred billion stars in our galaxy, at least 100 billion galaxies, and planets around most of the stars we see. Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one ...

The universe has two kinds of matter. There is invisible dark matter, known only because of its gravitational effects on a ...

Galactic mergers are not like a demolition derby, with stars and planets crashing into each other, but rather a complicated ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

Whether you want to get close to the craters on the moon or observe distant galaxies, you'll need a ... a telescope with a larger diameter for the planets to revolve greater light-gathering ...