On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever built: the Vera ...

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of ...

May 2025 marked a key milestone for UCL Chemistry: it is the end of the Age of Mercury. Gone are the thermometers, the ...

Extreme nuclear transients are 10 million times rarer than supernovae and emit the same amount of energy as 100 Suns.

Galaxy clusters are among the largest structures in the universe, consisting of hundreds or thousands of galaxies.

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

In the heart of distant galaxies, astronomers have witnessed the most violent stellar death throes ever recorded.

The Louisiana observatory that made a historic scientific breakthrough by detecting gravitational waves from black holes in ...

Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly magnetized dead star like a neutron or white dwarf, Curtin University’s ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other advanced telescopes have captured an extraordinary ...

The Blackrock Castle telescope gives astronomers and visitors alike a window on other worlds, exploring the possibility of ...