Year? A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light moves incredibly fast — about 186,000 miles (300,000 ...

Scientists at the Swinburne University of Technology recently published a paper in Nature Astronomy revealing that galaxies ...

The universe’s light-starved early epochs, as well as the first stars and galaxies, lie beyond the reach of conventional ...

A Cold Moon hangs in the sky while Jupiter still shines bright and the Geminid meteor shower peaks in the sky this week.

Comets are icy bodies that formed alongside the planets in the early Solar System before being flung into its distant outer ...

Sun Dec 15, 2024 07:00 PM Last update on: Sun Dec 15, 2024 07:03 PM Astronomer Dr Lamia Mowla, an Assistant Professor at ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the Geminid meteor shower, which will peak during the early morning hours ...

Data access, or the availability of new and archival data for use by other scientists and the public, is key to scientific ...

In the eighteenth century, from opposite ends of the world, a debate raged between two scholars over a seemingly esoteric ...

Amateur astronomy clubs thrive on community stargazing sessions. Be patient and respectful when lining up for shared ...

New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future. By Katrina Miller The shower forms from the debris of an asteroid ...