“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

Astronomy Astronomers capture the most intricate picture of a galaxy in a thousand colors ever seen (photo, video) Astrophotography Amateur astrophotographer images a stunning galaxy 24 million ...

The Whirlpool is one of astronomy's galactic darlings. Located approximately 25 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs), the Whirlpool's beautiful face-on view ...

NASA has admitted that an over 300-foot-wide hole in the surface of Mars could be a 'portal' leading to alien life hiding underground on the Red Planet.

County Durham pupils are participating in the National Astronomy Meeting 2025, hosted by Durham University and organised by the Royal ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists have ...

To make a truly realistic fake picture of a galaxy, you can model exactly how light particles travel through the atmosphere and telescope to reach its sensor.