The James Webb Space Telescope's main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars. The space observatory captured ...

In March 2025, astronomers detected the brightest burst of radio light yet – and identified exactly where it came from. In a world first, researchers pinpointed the site of a non-repeating fast radio ...

The researchers found that birds in areas containing the most man-made light pollution are singing 50 minutes longer than those not exposed to extra light. Specifically, the birds in the brightest ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious emissions of radio waves that pepper the cosmos. For a few milliseconds, they can outshine every other radio source in a galaxy, and the latest detected by ...