After a year of protests from astronomers, authorities have abandoned plans for a giant, light-polluting renewable-energy ...

The new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, focused on the Hubble Legacy Archive and a dataset built from it: 99.6 ...

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Tiny delays in pulsar signals measured by SETI scientists could aid the search for gravitational waves and extraterrestrial life.

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

Astronomers in the United Arab Emirates have provided an important update, which gives a clear indication of when exactly ...