Astronomers have made a historic discovery by directly detecting cosmic rays deep inside a dense, starless molecular cloud.

What appears to be a ghostly hand reaching across the universe toward a defenseless spiral galaxy in a new telescope image is a rarely seen cosmic phenomenon, according to astronomers. The Dark Energy ...

For the first time, scientists have watched high‑energy cosmic rays at work deep inside a thick cloud of gas, not just at its outer surface. Using the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of astronomers are, in a manner of speaking, on cloud nine after discovering a never-before-seen astronomical object in the ...

Astronomers have spotted six rogue worlds, or cosmic objects that don't orbit stars, using the James Webb Space Telescope. The celestial bodies are slightly bigger than Jupiter, and the observations ...

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic rays in two neighbouring galaxies, showing areas of star formation and echoes of past supernovae. The ...