Members of local committees in Syria began on Sunday selecting members of a transitional parliament, in a process criticised ...

Greetings stargazers. The night sky is changing. I am not talking about stars disappearing because of light pollution, even thought that is certainly an issue, but I am thinking of all the ways the ...

On his social media, Kipping argued that the likelier explanation for what was actually depicted in the image was Phobos, the ...

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days.

To make the Moon look so large in the background, photographers need to use superzoom telephoto lenses of at least 1,000mm while being positioned a mile or so away from the all-important foreground ...

Deer Creek State Park in Wallsburg, Utah delivers that head-shaking, am-I-actually-awake experience with views so magnificent they border on hallucinatory. Remember dreams where you’re standing ...

Johns Hopkins researchers may have identified a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A ...

Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the galaxy’s disc, an echo of something mysterious in our galaxy’s ancient past.

Radio astronomy opens a window onto the invisible universe. While our eyes can detect visible light, countless objects in ...

Florida is home to three listed "dark sky" locations that may offer the best views of the Milky Way's galactic center. The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than ...

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked ...