Taylor Observatory and Norton Planetarium offers cosmic educational events from the Earth and beyond for all ages.

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a black hole, they glow with fierce intensity across the light spectrum. Now, a ...

A NASA study predicts that 96% of the images from the ARRAKIHS mission will be contaminated by the light from the more than ...

Time may seem like a constant force, but according to a new study published on December 1 in The Astronomical Journal, the ...

This means that, due to time dilation, you would age faster on Mars than on Earth. If you were to spend a whole 50 years on the Red Planet, you’d end up a whole 9 seconds older than if you had stayed ...

A supermoon takes place when the full moon occurs at the same time that the moon is closest to Earth. This can lead to the full moon being 30 per cent brighter than when at its most distant. Another ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is estimated to be 13.6 billion years old. It began to form a few hundred million years after the ...

When I was five years old, my family moved into a 1930s semi-detached house with a long strip of garden. At the end of the garden was a miniature orchard of eight apple trees the previous owners had ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

Stargazers are in for a treat this week as the final magnificent supermoon of the year rises. The third supermoon in a row will be visible rising at sunset on Thursday evening to the naked eye. Also ...

In the annals of the great fires of the world, the Fire of Bombay, of February 1803, does not necessarily rank uppermost.

Recently, Pune researchers found a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way from the early universe. What is the striking ...