For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical ...

Unprecedented discovery of fast radio bursts challenges existing theories. Astronomers detect repeated signals from an ...

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

For years, high-energy energy flashes have kept astronomers guessing, with one theory emerging most recently. A discovery now ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of interacting galaxies Arp 142. Arp 142 consists of a distorted ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...