A supposed gamma-ray burst from an ancient galaxy was in fact something much closer to home, according to new research. Reading time 4 minutes In 2017, a team of astronomers looking at the oldest and ...

If you see a bright light just above the horizon at sunrise, don't panic! It's not a UFO — it's probably just Venus. Planetariums, observatories, weather offices and maybe even police stations may ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange and exciting new object in space. Using a huge radio telescope, we spotted a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An enormous cosmic explosion has been spotted by scientists, marking the largest of its kind ever discovered. The ...

A blue Earth ascends over the barren surface of the moon, against the black void of space. This famous photograph, Earthrise, was taken on Christmas Eve of 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders.

Learn about the ongoing mystery of 300 bright objects discovered in deep space, some of which may be galaxies that formed in the early universe. A collection of 300 unusually bright objects in deep ...

Something in space is sending us brief, very bright blasts of blue light – and scientists might finally have a clue to what they are. The phenomenon, known as luminous fast blue optical transients or ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The picture, which shows Earth at night as the ISS passes over ...