On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft . They told Gaia to shut down its ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the largest astronomical project in existence — astronomers were able to peel ...

Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement of new 25% tariffs on foreign car imports is escalating trade tensions with some of the ...

Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a ...

In theory, you could build enormous observatories on the Moon and see further and more clearly than ever before. It's not ...

A groundbreaking NASA experiment has delivered the first successful radio astronomy observations from the lunar surface, ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...