The cosmos holds secrets that would make the greatest detective novels seem simplistic by comparison. Every night, astronomers point their telescopes toward the infinite darkness, only to discover ...

The deeper we look into space, the stranger it becomes. Astronomers are discovering objects and signals that challenge what we thought we knew about the universe. Some of these phenomena behave in ...

A dark matter signal that appears in one place but not another might look like a contradiction. This new study argues it may ...

Historical observations from an observatory in Germany have now independently verified evidence for brief, mysterious flashes of light in the night sky, first picked up by an American astronomical ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to the signals seen when black holes collide. The unusual pattern appeared ...