Keith Cooper

Any potential alien messages could be too complicated for humans to understand, but AI trained to detect complex structure in communication could help decipher them for us.

AI is the way forward in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, from detecting radio signals to finding technosignatures on planets.

The blast of light was 100 times brighter than an ordinary supernova, but it came from intergalactic space between two distant galaxies.

Distant galaxies that existed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang are brighter than expected in JWST images because they were experiencing bursts of intense star formation.

Two new infrared mosaics of the Orion Nebula showcase the JWST's abilities while revealing new insights into this familiar star-forming region.

A supernova that recently exploded in the Pinwheel Galaxy has revealed hitherto unknown information about the final days of the star that exploded.

The radio signals hint at an important evolutionary step in the lives of galaxies.

The Dark Ages are the period of time between the Big Bang and the birth of stars and galaxies.

The findings also corroborate earlier reports that TRAPPIST-1b lacks a thick, hydrogen atmosphere.

The gravitational waves are emitted by ultracompact binaries of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs.

Three teams have progressed through to the final round of the MagQuest Challenge to design a better way of measuring the shifts in the geomagnetic field.

The magnetic field is a thousand times weaker than Earth’s, but is spread out across 16,000 light years.

Finding more debris from stellar explosions will tell us about how heavy elements are distributed across the galaxy.

The exploded guts of a supergiant star are giving up new secrets in a case of stellar CSI.

Here's why a black hole crashing into a neutron star belched out an odd gamma-ray burst.

A puzzling bright smudge was captured clinging to this dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere.

By modeling the neutrinos from a supernova as an exotic kind of fluid moving at nearly the speed of light, researchers are searching for signs of how neutrinos can interact with each other.

An observing campaign involving New Horizons, the Hubble Space Telescope and perhaps even you is designed to better understand how heat flows through the atmospheres of two ice giants.

The enormous waves are the result of gravitational tides dragging around stellar material.

Knowing that black holes tend to have these masses could help provide a new way of measuring the expansion rate of the universe.

Radio data has also allowed planetary scientists to measure Mars' rotation rate and learn more about the world's over-sized, molten core.

Trained on a neural network on 6,000 stars, the EAGLES algorithm will be used on surveys of millions more.