Amateur astrophotographer Emil Andronic has captured a striking image of the Cat's Eye Nebula from his home in Hertfordshire, ...

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Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known ...

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“In the universe, an absolute vacuum is rare, and most of the universe is very low-density high-temperature plasma,” said Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. “In principle, sound ...

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed ...

Scientists are analysing the smells of space – from the aroma onboard space stations to planets hundreds of light years away ...

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was ...