So, you want to find dark matter, but you don't know where to look? A giant planet might be exactly…
Astronomers have been watching a nearby pulsar with a strange halo around it. That pulsar might answer a question that's…
There's a lot of mysterious goings-on at the center of the Milky Way. The supermassive black hole that resides there…
The eerie, hellish glow coming from the Moon may seem unreal in this image, since it's invisible to our eyes.…
According to a new study, the recent merger of two neutron stars (which was detected thanks to the gravitational waves…
Thanks to a team of researchers from the Netherlands, who used the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), the second fastest-spinning pulsar…
The Fermi Space Telescope has found the source of 'Big Bird', one of the most energetic neutrinos ever detected.
The universe, most cosmologists tell us, began with a bang. At some point, the lights turned on. How much light…
Last weekend (April 27, 2013), the Fermi and Swift spacecraft witnessed a “shockingly” bright burst of gamma rays from a…
When it comes to sheer wattage, blazars definitely rule. As the brightest of active galactic nuclei, these sources of extreme…