A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although ...

Orbiting a pulsar, astronomers have found a strange, lemon-shaped exoplanet with winds of helium and pure carbon, denser than ...

Explore the debate surrounding a potential dark matter discovery, highlighting skepticism and the need for rigorous ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed ...

A long-standing physics mystery has been solved with the discovery of emergent photon-like behavior inside a strange quantum ...

Scientists say dolphins and orcas have teamed up to hunt salmon off British Columbia. It’s the first time such behavior has ...

Astronomers said planet PSR J2322-2650b appears to have an exotic helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere unlike any ever seen ...

The combination of a supernova and a kilonova may have produced a rare space explosion that astronomers have never seen ...

Officially labelled PSR J2322-2650b, this Jupiter-mass planet has been deformed into a bizarre lemon shape by the sheer, ...

Astronomers have recorded a unique awakening of the neutron star P13. Over the course of a decade, its X-ray brightness has ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

Webb spots a bizarre exoplanet with a carbon-rich atmosphere orbiting a pulsar, defying theories of how planets form.