Astronomers spotted the brightest fast radio burst ever, just 130 million light-years away, thanks to CHIME’s upgrade.

A groundbreaking discovery in the field of exoplanet research has revealed a fascinating new planet orbiting a star just 124 light-years away from Earth. Dubbed GJ 2126 b, this massive world is not ...

The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is ...

Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha ...

The ultramassive black hole resides around 5 billion light years away from us in the Cosmic Horseshoe, one of the most massive known galaxies. The Cosmic Horseshoe is also the largest known ...

The black hole and its crooked jet are found in a blazar known as OJ 287, located about four billion light-years away. A blazar is a quasar seen head-on, and a quasar is the active core of a ...

Five small exoplanets orbit closely around a red dwarf star called L 98-59, located 35 light-years away. A super-Earth, L 98-59 f, lies in the foreground of this illustration, believed to be ...

New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions about what it will take to detect biology light-years away.