As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

The system is believed to be traveling at least 1.2 million miles per hour (1.93 million kilometers per hour), according to a ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

NASA and other world-leading space agencies are putting the most powerful eyes in the night sky on asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly discovered threat to Earth.

As usual, the mysteries of the cosmos will be on display at this year’s fest, beginning with opening-night film "Small Town ...

A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 super-large HII region.

Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has ...

A full moon will rise in the sky this week but will it still be that way by the time Valentine's Day rolls around?

When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Gijima, Nokia secure prestigious SKAO business opportunityIssued by GijimaJohannesburg, 10 Feb 2025From left: Don Andrews (SKAO), Jeremy Main (SKAO), Peter Lewis (SKAO), Gian Augostino (Nokia), Louis ...