A tremendously large cloud that blocked the light from a distant star has been found to consist of swirling winds of ...

He said India's achievements in mathematics, astronomy, and medicine were studied in Iran and people of Iran have always ...

SkyMapper and the SETI Institute have formed a strategic partnership to help SkyMapper build a decentralized telescope ...

A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

SpectrUM recently gained a $250,000 grant from NASA to place telescopes in the fall of this year in libraries across the state of Montana.

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

Frisco Elementary School hosted a family stargazing event with the help of community partners Thursday, Jan. 16. Students ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes ...