When exploring outer space, the sharpness of our vision has always been limited by Earth’s atmosphere and the physical size of our telescopes. But astronomers shattered these limitations in 2024 by ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

The popular belief that European astronomy from the late Middle Ages and early Modern Age was more advanced than that of ...

Scientists comment on asteroid 2024 YR4 which may hit Earth in 2032. Prof Martin Ward, Emeritus Temple Chevallier Professor of Astronomy, Durham University, said: ...

Br Guy Consolmagno, the director of the Vatican Observatory, has published a new book entitled A Jesuit's Guide to the Stars.

RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...

Mr Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, the Minister for Environment, Science and Technology (MEST) says the Government will complete ...

It might be hard spotting Venus on Valentine's Day in Indiana because of cloudy weather. February, however, is still the best month to see it.

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

A glorious, colorful image captured by a telescope in Chile shows the bright glow of star cluster RCW 38, where young stars are being born.