Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

The image was constructed by Silvia Mantovanini, a Ph.D. student at Curtin University’s ICRAR node, who spent 18 months and ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers using the powerfulMeerKAT telescope have detected 30 new radio transient pulsars ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

Scientists recreated the Milky Way’s history using supercomputers to track where dark matter should collect and collide.

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...

The federal government has been—and must remain—a critical partner in foundational technological innovation and research ...

Dr. Tomer Shenar, Guy Shtainer, Roey Ovadia & Zehava Katabi. A study led by Dr. Tomer Shenar from TAU's School of ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...