Five telescopes of the H.E.S.S.-collaboration in Namibia are used to study cosmic radiation, especially gamma radiation. With data from 10...
When NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40...
Research by astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) could revolutionize our understanding of...
Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier thanks to an advancement in how to...
Using the set of first-light observations from the new William Herschel Telescope Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE) wide-field spectrograph, a...
Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a “flame-throwing guitar” has now been spotted moving through...
Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence...
With the Taurid meteor shower now hitting the night skies worldwide, look for what could be a celestial treat –...
Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing...
The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would...
When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted...
