Lovers of the stars, sky and space have had the option to study astronomy on the curriculum since September 2017, when ...

A high-flying student has earned a top grade in an unusual GCSE subject. Grace Dickson, a pupil at Springwood High School, achieved a grade 9 in astronomy, becoming only the second student at the ...

UC Riverside has developed a technology that enables scientists to peer deeper into the universe. Gravitational-wave science ...

Astronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we've picked six targets to emphasize the variety and scale of objects visible ...

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by ...

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

Stargazers will be happy to know that October will see the cosmos compensating for a couple of relatively lean months.There ...

The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.

Astronomers have discovered a massive bridge of neutral hydrogen gas that connects two dwarf galaxies. Scientists at the University of Western Australia node of the International Centre (ICRAR) have ...