Not too long ago the thought of having a capable home observatory in your own back garden seemed impossible, but now it is. You can see into the depths of the cosmos from the comfort of your own home.

Much of the universe's regular "baryonic" matter is spread through intergalactic space and in diffuse halos around galaxies, researchers proposed after studying the behavior of fast radio bursts ...

A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to search data from a NASA space telescope for objects such as black holes.

NASA's X-ray space telescope Chandra spotted the cosmic collision from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Centaurus A. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Diamonds have always been something to be admired because of their beauty, and they are now ready to be used in the critical field of space exploration. Scientists from UNSW have designed an ...

Ptolemy, the first century Greek astronomer and mathematician, made his observations of the night skies with the naked eye. In 1609, the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei upended the Earth-centered ...

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) initially classified a near-Earth object (NEO), designated 2018 CN41, as a newly discovered asteroid based on observations from citizen scientists. This was later ...

There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. And with this new research, scientists have improved our understanding of these elusive free-floating ...

Previous studies concluded there were some weird light-generating objects out there, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Reading time 3 minutes To paraphrase the great Nigel Tufnel, when you look ...