A leader in the study of distant supernovae has been awarded the 2025 Caroline Herschel Medal for outstanding women astrophysicists in the UK and ...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the German Astronomical Society (Astronomische Gesellschaft, AG) are delighted to announce that the Caroline Herschel Medal 2025 is awarded to Prof. Isobel ...

Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...

Families looking for a fun and educational half-term activity can visit the Greenwich Planetarium throughout the school holidays.

A decade ago, physicists using twin detectors in Washington State and Louisiana detected gravitational waves—subtle ripples ...

What are the seven wonders of the world? How to visit the sites on the modern list - Representing a united heritage and ...

RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

Jupiter has been high in the sky in the evening lately, and that stirred a memory of the first time I ever saw Jupiter ...

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...