"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its decade-long survey to scan the entire night sky every three days. To do this, it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured infant stars carving peaks of dust and gas in the Pismis 24 star cluster.

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

Explore the universe with multi-messenger astronomy, combining light, gravitational waves, neutrinos, and cosmic rays for a ...

Cosmic dust—the tiny particles that help form stars, planets and the chemical building blocks of life—might be much spongier ...

A Pakistan-born German astrobiologist has identified life-supporting organic molecules beneath the icy crust of Enceladus, ...

These tiny dust grains are fundamental to astronomy and are found in the star-forming regions of space such as the Pillars of Creation. Professor Martin McCoustra from Heriot-Watt University in ...

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the ...

Professor Martin McCoustra from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, who took part in the study published in the Astronomy ...