The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued ...

Located in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), these filaments could be a part of a cyclical process in one of the galaxy’s ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to ...

What if black holes weren’t the only things slowly vanishing from existence? Scientists have now shown that all dense cosmic ...

Hers is a “thinking eye”, to borrow Klee’s phrase: the immediacy of the visual is always joined and powered by the ...

In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was ...

Black holes, cosmic entities with immense gravity, trap everything, even light. These form from collapsed massive stars, ...