An international team of astronomers has uncovered a new class of radio-emitting celestial object that could redefine what we know about long-period radio transients. In a study published on arXiv, ...

Astronomy is full of puzzling objects, and an international team of researchers has just added another juicy one: A dense compact object that has been spotted orbiting a pulsar. This in itself is ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Unidentified Astronomical Object Barr and his colleagues recently used the MeerKAT radio telescope array in South Africa (which may well have one of the cutest names humanity has ever bestowed on ...

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What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

The scientists originally assumed that the signal came from a distant object in the cosmos, but further analysis revealed that the long-dead Relay-2 was in fact the culprit behind the mysterious pulse ...

On Wednesday, researchers announced the discovery of a new astronomical enigma. The new object, GPM J1839–10, behaves a bit like a pulsar, sending out regular bursts of radio energy. But the phy ...

An international team of astronomers has detected a cosmic phenomenon so unusual that it could redefine what we know about ...

All eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...

A hypothetical object, the black hole pulsar, could briefly form during this process. Elias Most describes this phenomenon as a traditional pulsar, but powered by the black hole as it absorbs the ...