The Union Budget 2026 has announced the setting up and upgradation of four telescopes and astronomy facilities to promote ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

Australia's iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

KAIST researchers tested optical frequency comb lasers as reference signals for radio astronomy, aiming to synchronize radio telescopes with light-based timing in VLBI observations.

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just ...

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth was a tropical greenhouse. Today, it's an ice-capped world. And an international team of experts led by the University of Southampton think they know why. Their new ...

The object that would become known as both the Great January Comet of 1910 and the Daylight Comet was first seen Jan. 12 in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s unclear who precisely discovered it, but some ...

The York County Astronomical Society will offer programs for young children and families Saturday afternoon and for older ...

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

The algorithm sifted through galaxies in mergers, revealing elongated star and gas streams; gravitational lenses bending ...

Four of the planets, which are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, are bright enough to be spotted with the naked eye in ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...