How A Green Energy Project Could Stop Us Seeing The Next 'Armageddon' Asteroid. In February this year the world was left on ...

On a volcanic island under some of the darkest skies on Earth, I rediscovered the night sky and came home with a new view of ...

Captured by the VST, NGC 3640 reveals a turbulent history of cosmic cannibalism, but its current companion, NGC 3641, remains ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

At the Paranal Observatory in Chile, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just observe the stars—it actively creates artificial stars to ...

This borehole was drilled in the Core Shed area of the McLaughlin Natural Reserve. This area is a grassy flat with low shrubs and a few introduced trees, and the Homestake Core Shed houses archived ...

This is the task of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), a facility at Haleakala Observatory on the Hawaiian island of Maui, previously known as the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) ...

Most values are the precipitation in the 24 hours to 9 am on the day indicated. Days marked with → are part of a longer accumulation, which is shown on the final day. Values over 100 mm have been ...

Scientists just found four small planets not too far from us, and they might be perfect for future space travelers. These exoplanets are the right size, possibly have the right conditions, and they’re ...

The astronomy project stems from a 2023 agreement between China’s state-run National Astronomical Observatory and Chile’s Catholic University of the North to work on a powerful space observatory in ...

High atop Chile’s Atacama Desert, ESO’s Paranal Observatory reveals a starry spectacle, where the Milky Way dances like a dragon and lasers light up the sky to sharpen cosmic views. Credit: F. Millour ...