At the center of the Milky Way, something glows faintly in gamma rays — and nobody can agree on what it is. For years, scientists have debated whether this excess of high-energy light is the ...

A team of astronomers has identified the engine behind one of the most puzzling classes of repeating cosmic radio signals, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We Just Found One of The Rarest Stars in The Galaxy A few years ago, a radio telescope operating out of the desert of Western ...

There is a mysterious phenomenon in which strong radio signals arrive periodically from space, yet their source remains completely unknown. Known as “long-period radio transients" (LPTs), these ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to 1980, X-ray ...

(CNN)A mysterious signal that has confounded scientists for years has been traced to a spot in the sky more than 3 billion light-years away. Almost a decade after the first fast radio burst (FRB) was ...

For the past two decades, a strange cosmic signal has been pinging every 1.4 hours from the abyss of space. These bursts of radio waves, called long-period radio transients, have left scientists ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller On a brown dwarf dozens of light years ...

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to "wander" and are not located at the galaxy's center. There are plenty of ...

A mysterious signal that has confounded scientists for years has been traced to a spot in the sky more than 3 billion light-years away. Almost a decade after the first fast radio burst (FRB) was ...