Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu ...

Long before telescopes and space travel, ancient civilizations had incredibly creative ideas about what the universe looked ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently captured an extraordinary image that features both ...

The VLT recently captured an image of an object known as Ve 7–27, which was long thought to be a planetary nebula. However, ...

On the evening of 31 January, the Bangladesh Astronomical Association, with support from Kalabagan Krira Chakra, hosted a Jupiter and Moon Observation Camp ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, ...

Mock observations test the performance of the Chinese Space Station Telescope as the 2-meter-class observatory moves closer to launch. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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