Astronomers have for the first time observed a recurring nova outside of the Milky Way in near-infrared light. The data revealed highly unusual chemical emissions as well as one of the hottest ...

A shockingly bright Nova explosion occurred right on cue, but its brilliance and strange chemical signature baffled ...

This nova has a recurrent timescale of about four ... “By broadening our range to other galaxies using the largest astronomical telescopes available, like Gemini South, astronomers will increase ...

In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly ...

They introduced the 16-bit Nova computer in 1969 to compete with DEC’s PDP-8. I was gawking at a fully-equipped Nova 2 system which had been introduced in 1975. This machine and its accessories ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission is expected to map the entire sky four times over two years, offering a window into how the universe ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

In the century since Hubble’s pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly ...

The exterior of Stella Nova, and its sister Terra Luna, is covered in colorful reflective tiles. These evoke space and galaxies. The resort’s windows all have rounded ends like those of a spaceship.

This was the end of the cosmic dark ages and the start of galaxy formation. These first stars and the galaxies they formed were very different from anything we see in the modern universe.