Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) ...

Those events are akin to throwing a pebble in a pond, but there are vibrations all the time. Some of them might end up making ...

In an astronomical feat, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers observed a distant galaxy, uncovering ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

One of the key developments in this field has been the analysis of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers, which include neutron stars and black holes. The Gravitational-Wave Transient ...

Neutron stars, the dense remains of massive stars that have exploded in supernovae, are some of the most fascinating objects ...

This week, scientists with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reported that a key current, the Atlantic Meridional ...

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It is believed to be the first time so many stars have been identified in one cluster. Physicists studying a distant galaxy using a telescopic technique called "gravitational lensing" found 44 ...

Capturing images of individual stars in distant galaxies has generally been considered impossible for decades. But NASA’s ...