The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. Astronomers use Andromeda to understand the ...

A student who built a Lego version of the landmark Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank with 30,500 bricks said it was the "most challenging build I've ever done but also the most fun". The observatory, ...

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

Some theories suggest they are produced by “magnetars” – the highly magnetised cores of massive, dead stars – or arise from ...

An object astronomers initially thought to be a high-speed burst of radio waves from deep space last year has been revealed ...

Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in ...

Using a huge radio telescope, we spotted a blindingly fast flash of radio waves that appeared to be coming from somewhere ...

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

Students at the University of Manchester in the UK have created a 30,500-piece LEGO model of the iconic Lovell Telescope to ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

With the recent release of its first images, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is one giant step closer to launching its Legacy Survey of Space and ...