It was a bump in the night. A big one.On Nov. 23, 2023, waves from a colossal merger of two black holes reached Earth and ...

Galaxy Fest is RTÉjr's first truly Interstellar podcast! We want you to jump aboard the Spectacular Irish Space Station on missions to galaxies unknown. But, before you do, it's best to introduce the ...

The newly discovered space rock may be older than our entire solar system, and you may get the chance to see it ...

An international team of astronomers has managed to peer into the first billion years of the cosmos thanks to the Atacama ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

The community of experts in astronomy works tirelessly in the shadows, with the aim of providing answers that, until now, have escaped human control. Many aspects are still unknown ...

On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away, has fascinated observers for centuries. Once believed to be part ...

The Milky Way could have more satellite galaxies than previously thought, according to new research. Cosmologists at Durham ...

In the first study of its kind, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS) in Japan, along ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Explore the warped spiral galaxy NGC 3718 and its neighbor NGC 3729 — a dynamic duo of deep-sky oddities in the constellation Ursa Major.