In 2008, astronomers detected an unexplained bright object located 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A light year is exactly what it sounds like: the distance light travels in one year. If you need to get somewhere quick, you'd want to jump on this train because light travels through ...

Humans have discovered powerful telescopes to gaze at the beautiful night sky, only to realize that distant objects in space are things of the past. The light of these distant objects takes a certain ...

But the stellar halo, as this roughly ball-shaped, less dense grouping of stars is called, stretches the limits of the Milky ...

Even if they were dozens of light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth. At least, that’s according to a recent paper published in ...

The recent discovery of an exoplanet just 20 light-years away has sparked intrigue and debate among the scientific community. The planet exhibits a startling similarity to Earth, including the ...

New, groundbreaking research shows that rotation curves of galaxies stay flat indefinitely, corroborating predictions of modified gravity theory as an alternative to dark matter In a breakthrough ...

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Congratulations on noticing an effect called superluminal expansion, a phenomenon we see in a light echo. The echo appears to us to expand at many times the speed of light, seemingly violating the ...