With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have found the most powerful and distant "odd radio circle" ever detected.

Three enormous and peculiar radio light rings were discovered far, far outside our own galaxy, shedding more light on one of ...

A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

Even astronomers who study peculiar outer space objects have their favorites. Here are some interstellar bodies that have won ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

Astronomers have found a developing ring system around Chiron, an icy body between Saturn and Uranus. This discovery provides ...

Using CO (J=1–0) molecular line data obtained from the 13.7-meter millimeter-wave telescope at the Purple Mountain ...