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 ...

Have you ever wondered why everything in the Universe seems to rotate in a counterclockwise direction? From the spinning of ...

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

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

Scientists have used machine learning to dramatically speed up the processing time when simulating galaxy evolution coupled ...

In October 1604, astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler spotted a new star in the sky and began tracking it. Over the course of several weeks, the star remained visible in the daytime and ...

Dark Sky Party-goers can expect to peek through huge telescopes and strong binoculars owned by members of the Eugene ...

Astronomers from Bulgaria and Egypt have performed multi-wavelength observations of a well-known blazar designated S5 ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...