Armillary rings emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries during the birth of the scientific revolution and rise of astronomy ...

Alfred University is home to the Stull Observatory and its seven independent telescopes, but relatively few students have chosen to take advantage of those resources in the form of a minor in ...

IIA astronomers confirm black hole activity suppresses star formation, revealing insights into galaxy evolution and gas ...

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

An international team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has shed light on a decades-long debate about why galaxies spin faster than expected—and whether this ...

Press Release from The University of North Carolina Asheville: The University of North Carolina Asheville’s Department of Physics and Astronomy recently launched a new astronomy major — the first in ...

A Curtin University study cataloged over 112,000 instances of unintended radio emissions from Starlink satellites, impacting up to 30% of astronomical images from a Square Kilometre Array (SKA) ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has delivered an unexpected twist in the case of Earendel, the most distant star ever discovered. Previously believed to be a singular, massive star located 12.9 ...

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...