Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed large-scale radio observations of a ...

"This is a unique opportunity to learn how the universe's first light emerged from the darkness." ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic ...

Meet the Woman Who Found the Most Useful Stars in the Universe. When Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar 51 years ago, she revealed a new tool for solving many mysteries of the ...

Chicago man's plan to honor astronomy-loving father ends in mishap Griffin Lau and his brother celebrated their late father, Curtis Lau, a fan of space travel, in a special tribute by sending his ...

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

Population III (PopIII) stars represent astronomy's ultimate prize: the first generation of stars born from the pristine hydrogen and helium created in the Big Bang.

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting the light in those images to ...