An intriguing new study suggests that the universe may rotate once every 500 billion years. If correct, the authors believe ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

Shetye made the project possible with funds from a National Science Foundation grant that allowed her to engage students in the arts for a public outreach project. The result of their collaboration is ...

Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe is made of, including the existence of dark matter.

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer Lorena Hernández-García.

Prof Amare Abebe, research director at the Centre for Space Research at the North-West University (NWU), has been elected as the new president of the African Astronomical Society (AfAS). AfAS was ...

"Decreasing the capacity to support this sector makes our nation less resilient and more vulnerable to space weather." ...

Vaonis' Hestia combines a telescope and camera into an all-in-one package that will turbocharge your phone for astroimaging.

Figure 1: First space borne BEC (2017). The QUANTUS collaboration [3], developed a highly sophisticated, but yet compact and rugged matter-wave device that can be used, for example, as a portable ...

In that way, the SMC is a unique and very close example of what was happening in the early universe. For more sublime space images, check out our Space Photo of the Week archives . TOPICS ...

Enthusiasts share their images of the partial solar eclipse, which started at 10:07 GMT on Saturday. The eclipse won't be total anywhere in the world, but parts of Canada will come close. Parts of ...