Our Milky Way galaxy is home to some extremely weird things, but a new discovery has astronomers truly baffled. In data collected by a powerful radio telescope, astronomers have found what appears to ...

The universe is a chaotic place filled with exploding stars, material falling into black holes, and rogue planets wandering off on their own. All that chaos makes astronomers suspicious when they ...

Scientists have discovered a perfectly spherical object named Teleios in the Milky Way, emitting only radio signals. This mysterious structure, found using Australia’s ASKAP telescope, defies typical ...

Astronomers have spotted something remarkable hiding in the depths of the Milky Way—a nearly perfect circle formed from the debris of an exploded star. Known as Teleios, from the Greek word meaning ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the ...

Teleios image captured by the ASKAP telescope. Credit: M. D. Filipović et al. The discovery, made thanks to observations by the Australian ASKAP telescope, revealed that Teleios is so symmetrical that ...

Today, in questions you didn't know you needed the answer to: Is there such a thing as a perfect ball? And if there were, would it contain the secrets of the universe? To wit, a spherical object ...

In a universe governed by turbulence and chaos, perfection is rarely more than a mathematical ideal. Yet astronomers are puzzling over a newfound object that seems to defy that rule: a glowing, nearly ...

Ever wondered why all matter in our galaxy is often portrayed as a sphere? That’s because gravity pulls matter equally from all sides towards the center, where there’s more gravitational force. The ...

It looks like an alien world, or a floating snow globe suspended in space. At first glance it could even be a cue ball on a snooker table. But this perfect sphere, hiding in our Milky Way galaxy ...