We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Astronomer Anura C. Perera led the world’s first-ever celebration of Earth’s ‘birthday’ on Jan 4, commemorating the day the planet reached its closest point to the Sun, known as Perihelion Day. The ...

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," ...

With images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

This image, captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), showcases the expansive Andromeda Galaxy, also referred to as Messier 31 or M31. This image of M31, our nearest major ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

A team of astronomers led by University of Arizona researcher Catherine Fielder captured the most precise photographs of a ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...