"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Although there are a few hobbies that have low-cost entry points, amateur astronomy is not generally among them. A tabletop Dobsonian might cost a few hundred dollars, and that is just the entry ...

Unistellar's citizen scientists are using their smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy.

While it has become a word, laser used to be an acronym: “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”. But there is an even older technology called a maser, which is the ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), in collaboration with astrophysicists from the ...

There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends. In fact, you should be able to easily see it long before twilight fades. Jupiter is ...

This month, more South Africans than ever celebrated the news that their children passed matric, with the country’s highest ...

There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these Butler winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends. In ...

"Our results show that a 13-atom molecule structurally similar to those in comets already exists in a young, starless ...

There's plenty to keep visitors busy in the Big Peach.

Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...