At the beginning of the 19th century, a group of European astronomers came together to form an association without precedent in the history of astronomy. Informally known as the Celestial Police (in ...

The orange dot at the centre of this image is a powerful explosion that repeated several times over the course of a day, an event unlike anything ever witnessed before. The image, taken with ESO’s ...

Discover how astronomers use stellar parallax to navigate spacecraft in deep space without relying on Earth-based beacons.

But the surprises just keep coming. The mysterious entity, which was first spotted hurtling towards the Sun from far beyond in early July, has fascinated researchers ever since. As Science Alert ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

Credit: Ikeda et al. (Niigata univ.), background: R. Hurt/NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO. Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery that sheds new light on how stars are born. Using the powerful Atacama ...

ESA's Gaia mission ends its tenure—creating the most comprehensive and precise 3D map of Milky Way Galaxy In March 2025, the Gaia mission stopped collecting data from space. The influence of this ...

The bright star in the center, Fomalhaut, is surrounded by an ancient debris disk of uneven brightness. The disk is closer to the star in the south, where the disk is wider and fainter, and further ...

A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on Aug. 27 using one of the telescopes at the ...

A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on Aug. 27 using one of the telescopes at the ...

A handful of U.S. states could catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis over the weekend, as a result of geomagnetic storms Getty The northern lights will light up the night sky on Friday, Sept. 5, and ...

PEAK is a game of survival and teamwork in harsh conditions, so naturally there is a badge available focused exclusively on staring at the desert sun. It isn't especially hard to get, but it's easy to ...