The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

This finding revealed through advanced X-ray observations, sheds new light on the complex structure of the hot gas ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could ...

I assumed it was a very strange kind of cloud." It's not every day you get to watch a rocket launch into a sky glowing with ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a distant exoplanet.

A new model based on the famous alien-hunting Drake equation suggests that some parallel universes within the hypothetical ...

Cygnus X-1 was the first ever black hole discovered in the year 1960 which had 10 times more mass than the sun.