In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University set out to answer a question nobody asked but everyone secretly needed ...
NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency's ...
Polar auroras (northern lights or aurora borealis in the northern hemisphere and southern lights or aurora australis in the ...
Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...
The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.
A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.
The galaxy – seen as it appeared when the Universe was just 1.5 billion years old – shows a mature, organised structure at a time when most early galaxies were believed to be irregular and chaotic, ...
The shower peaks overnight on 13 and 14 December, but meteors can be seen in the days before and after this. To see them use ...
The discovery of two remarkable substellar companions orbiting distant stars has been announced by an international team of ...