Cosmologists are preparing to cast their sharpest-ever eyes on the early Universe. From an altitude of 5,300 metres on Cerro Toco, in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Simons Observatory will map ...

The star S0–6 appears to have traveled 50,000 light-years from a now-extinct galaxy to reach the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe they’ve discovered the first extragalactic planet ever observed by humans. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way: An ...

The promotional image shows the project about the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) All Sky HI survey (FASHI). As the image illustrates, the powerful FAST telescope is ...

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands of ...

Astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and Osaka Kyoiku University in Japan, have detected the element thorium in a red giant star called COS82, which lies in the Ursa Minor ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...

The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio signals from space. reading time 2 minutes For lovers of cool astronomy ...

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