There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

This image was created by combining data from three major observatories: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

A computer-based study is simulating the behaviour of massive cosmic jets in a virtual universe to help us understand how ...

"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Programs include a session on fruit tree pruning, a salamander meet and greet and children's programming focused on bugs.

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.