At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, visitors can experience some of the darkest and clearest night skies ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

Thousands of eggs belonging to an elusive species were found inside an underwater active volcano. The eggs take four years to ...

A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...

Scientists are working on AI technology that has brain-inspired hardware, architecture or algorithms. Such neuromorphic AI could be nimbler, more efficient ...

forged from sea-faring ships of the 17th century all the way to spaceships of modern times, we begin to build a bridge from ...

On this day in 2024, the East Anglian Daily Times reported that an image of the Milky Way had been captured over one of Suffolk's most popular beaches. Jon Allard, an astronomical photographer, took ...

These events, dubbed “milky seas” by the sailors who have been ... “the bacterial population is responding in this way that is so dramatic, and in a way that we hadn’t really anticipated ...