In the eastern morning sky, Venus is being swallowed by the rising sun’s glare. Taking Venus’s place this month is Arcturus, ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

Astronomers recently built a precise radio map of the Milky Way’s southern midline, showing 98,000 radio sources.

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Return of the Resilience: Securing the Galaxy of Data is the title of the next Space Park Conversations event taking place on Thursday, 4 December at the University of Leicester’s £100 million science ...

We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

Located in the constellation Leo, spiral galaxy NGC 3370 has long been a favorite among astronomers. NGC 3370 is part of a ...

A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and ...