Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic Array 2000 — could uncover some of the biggest outstanding mysteries in ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

The Big Bang model begins with a point of infinite density where the laws of physics break down. This is a deep theoretical problem that suggests the beginning of the Universe is not fully understood, ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...

Chile's ALMA observatory, which houses some of the world's most powerful telescopes, has captured its most detailed images to ...

Almost a thousand of the world's top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK's National Astronomy ...

Previously described as playing astronomical "spot the difference," Kilonova Seekers asks the public to compare the latest ...

Machine learning can help tighten constraints on the overarchingFor almost as long as humans have existed, we have been ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-486) and index Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology became a branch of physics. This text examines how the big bang theory drew inspiration from, and ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...