In recent years, the world of optics has undergone a major shift. New research shows how light can be bent, focused, and even ...

Abell S1063 is so massive that the light from distant galaxies bends around it, allowing it to act as a magnifying glass to ...

Astronomers have captured videos of the sun without the typical blur caused by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere ...

New research shows that there's a 50% chance that the Milky Way and its nearest major galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy ...

ASKAP telescope discovered Teleios, a perfectly spherical radio-only object in Milky Way with diameter up to 157 light-years.

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Around 16-17 June, Mars will appear to pass close to Regulus, the bright star at the heart of the constellation Leo, the lion ...

A new study challenges predictions our home galaxy the Milky Way will crash into the Andromeda galaxy in 5 billion years.

New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more ...

Even if the Milky Way and Andromeda don’t collide in the next 10 billion years, though, that won’t be the end of the story.

Work on a $2.4bn telescope sited on top of a volcano in Hawaii is set to be abandoned after the body funding decided to ...

Scientists may have found a planet orbiting two brown dwarfs at a wild 90-degree tilt—something never seen before.