Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), working with international collaborators, have made a striking discovery involving a previously unknown type of cosmic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wide-field composite image shows a newly discovered cosmic object called ASKAP J1832-0911 in X-ray, radio and infrared light. - ...

A completely dark, invisible object weighing 1 million times the mass of the Sun has been detected through its gravitational influence alone, without emitting any light. Hidden within a distant galaxy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this month astronomers were thrilled to discover only the third known interstellar object ever seen in our solar system.

Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving new clues about the origin of a class of mysterious objects. This object, known as ASKAP J1832, shows regular changes in ...

What made the pulses puzzling to the astronomers was that they came in the form of both radio waves and X-rays. The discovery marks the first time that such objects, called long-period transients, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A mysterious reddish object that formed only 90 million years after the Big Bang was observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. If it is a galaxy, ...