February kicks off what astronomers call “galaxy season” in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year offers the best ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

For years, high-energy energy flashes have kept astronomers guessing, with one theory emerging most recently. A discovery now ...

The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made an extraordinary discovery by detecting emissions from a galaxy located ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million ...

Local researchers make ‘monumental discovery’ By Staff Writer, ITWebJohannesburg, 22 Jan 2025The MeerKAT has proven to be a revolutionary tool for exploring the southern sky. The University of Cape ...

Only after that could rocky planets form, and by extension, habitable planets. That’s been axiomatic in astronomy.

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

At a time where many distracted themselves by looking down, maybe at a screen or a new bread recipe, fifth-year physics ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...