Astronomers from the University of Southampton made the unexpected discovery while examining an infant galaxy 12 billion ...

The most distant and most powerful "odd radio circle" (ORC) known so far has been discovered by astronomers. These curious ...

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 ...

This summer, I upgraded my small wide-angle view telescope in order to better track deep space objects and capture ...

Professor Mansi Manoj Kasliwal has been appointed director of Palomar Observatory, making her the first woman and second PIO to lead the facility. An internationally recognized Caltech astronomer, she ...

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days. reading time 6 minutes The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo ...

The algorithm models the blurring incurred by Earth's atmosphere and counteracts it, producing sharp and clear images. A new algorithm capable of transforming ground-based telescope images by removing ...

Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary ...

Ten years ago, on September 28, 2015, the AstroSat was launched by PSLV-C30 (XL) rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota with a mission life of five years. Though the designed mission ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

ORCs are vast, faint rings of radio energy that surround galaxies and can be detected only in radio wavelengths of the ...