A top a mountain in Chile, where the days are dry and nights are clear, a team of scientists and engineers is preparing for ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

All of the healthcare professions are crying out for regulatory reform, says Kevin Lewis – when will it be dentistry's turn?

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Learn more about WASP-121b, the exoplanet so hot it could vaporize iron.

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...