Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released a sneak peak of some of the images it is unveiling, the first set of space images from ...

What You Need To Know The IfA team discovered a previously unrecognized, undefined type of cosmic explosion far rarer and far more energetic than supernovae — an explosion second only to the Big Bang ...

Even if the Earth runs out of oil and gas, and a dense veil of smog plunges the world into darkness, we will still have ...

In 1953, Iran is at a crossroads. After decades of interference by foreign powers eager to exploit its oil reserves, the ...

In 1833, Astronomer Royal John Pond installed the Greenwich Time Ball on the observatory roof, a visual signal of the time that nearby sailors could use to sync their chronometers.

The changing phases of the moon offer different views and variety. It never fails to surprise me how different the moon can look, even when observed on two adjacent nights back to back. Astronomy ...

An international group of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have shown that we will be able to learn about the masses of the earliest stars by studying a specific radio signal &ndash ...

Now, an international group of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge have shown that we will be able to learn about the masses of the earliest stars by studying a specific radio signal – ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have discovered a vast 23 million light-year-wide tendril connecting galactic clusters and containing much of the universe's missing matter.