While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

Deep-sky objects shine and the giant planets show off their satellites as the bright light from the Moon disappears from our ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

If you look halfway up in the northwest, you'll be able to see the familiar zigzag of five bright stars forming the ...

New instrument on William Herschel Telescope spots previously unknown strip of ionized iron atoms at the heart of Ring Nebula ...

A haunting dark nebula captured recently in the night sky over Texas has drawn attention for its uncanny resemblance to a ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the ...

What you won’t see, though, are green ones. The reason for this is both a fault in the stars and in ourselves: we don’t see ...

A distinctive nebula inside the constellation Lyra holds a never-before-seen cloud of iron atoms—and researchers aren’t sure ...