From the deck of a ship or the window of a plane, it feels obvious that “down” points toward Earth and “up” points toward the ...

University of Chicago astronomy and astrophysics professor Donald G. York​, who is credited with pioneering contributions to ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

Pune: Scientists at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) finally solved the mystery of how ...

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

In the bigger picture, “down” could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

MeerKAT radio telescope discovers 49 hidden galaxies in less than three hours, revealing how much of the nearby universe ...

Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has found hundreds of distant and apparently bright galaxies dubbed ...

A group of about 1,000 stars known as the beehive cluster is swarming a sky near you. Here's when and how to see them.

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

Astronomers report that the active galactic nucleus at VV 340a is producing a wobbling outflow jet that challenges the ...

Space has a habit of showing us things before it explains them. We detect signals, objects, and behaviours that are […] ...