The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visit the Los Angeles firefighters who battled the wildfires and give the ...

Located approximately 1.5 million kilometers (about 930,000 miles) from Earth, it is ideal for space ... the history and structure of our galaxy. The mission has enabled the creation of the most ...

The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its ...

To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...

“This is the first fast radio burst (FRB) found outside a dead galaxy and is farther from its associated galaxy than any ...

Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...