Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

For the best chance of watching the spectacular northern lights, many head to areas around the Arctic, such as Norway, ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

The attack on NASA is particularly focused on research into climate change and continues the trend, under both Republicans ...

Tromso sits at the centre of the northern lights’ oval, meaning that the lights can be visible even when activity is low.

In 1923, Edwin Hubble captured a pulsing star within the Andromeda Galaxy on a glass photographic ... From the vantage point of Earth, M87’s black hole is smaller than the edge of a dime in ...

Their goal was to measure the Milky Way galaxy, home to planet Earth. To their puzzlement ... collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy (which will not happen, he adds, for several ...

An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...