In the northern sky in December is a beautiful cluster of stars known as the Pleiades, or the “seven sisters”....
Star-gazers are in for a treat this week, as Jupiter and Saturn are about to get closer to each other...
Astronomers hunting for radio signals from alien civilizations have detected an “intriguing signal” from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the...
At the very largest scale, the Universe consists of a “cosmic web” made of enormous, tenuous filaments of gas stretching...
In April of 1990, our Universe opened up to us in a whole new way. That’s when the Hubble Space...
The Universe is full of galaxy clusters, but Abell 2261 is in a class of its own. In the galaxy...
On 21 December 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will cross paths in the night’s sky and for a brief moment, they...
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, a Cornell University-led international team of scientists has detected radio bursts...
In our endless search to understand the Universe and our place within it, precious little blips in data can hint...
An international group of scientists, including Case Western Reserve University Astronomy Chair Stacy McGaugh, has published research contending that a...
In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio...
Most of the over 4,300 confirmed exoplanets discovered to date share something in common – a relatively close orbit to...
