Hubble captures LMC's interaction with the Milky Way’s halo. Surprising findings show LMC’s compact gas halo. Ram-pressure ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

After discussing the quirks in 3D modeling software, where a laser beam is treated as a solid object that can cast a shadow, scientists decided to experiment in real life — and found that laser beams ...

Two massive galaxies are bending light from the same distant quasar, creating a so-called Einstein zigzag lens that could ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

Get past the fake science, and the Taurid meteor shower foreshadows what could, one day, pose a troubling scenario.

In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy Krathong, and others, enhancing their celebrations. This period also offers ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Normally, when you look at a rainbow, the Earth’s horizon in front of you hides the bottom half of the circle. But if you are ...

Appreciation of light unites humanity: sunsets gleaming through clouds, the face of a loved one in a candle’s glow, lasers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was squeezed inside the nose cone of an Ariane 5 rocket and then launched. It deployed its ...