June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian and ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...

PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...

While it may surprise many, Delhi holds hidden gems for stargazers. From peaceful observatories to secret suburban skies, ...