A goat caused a spectacular firefighting operation in Madrid: it apparently got lost on the narrow windowsill of a fifth-floor apartment. Concerned ...

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) finds actively feeding black holes and a host of other black hole candidates.

Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new ...

Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published in the U.S. for the first time. 1930: The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh.

Type Ia supernovae have long served as essential tools in cosmology, acting as cosmic beacons that help astronomers measure ...

Isolated, low-mass galaxies help researchers study the impact of reionization on their star formation histories (SFHs) ...

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot ...

Astronomers have investigated three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that are located in a region of space far away from the ...

Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...