Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and its fate.
Astronomers have discovered mysterious, Earth-sized dark spots at Jupiter’s poles that appear and disappear unpredictably.
The New Scientist's two-day discovery event featured stargazing, 'fascinating' talks and a tour of the UK's largest radio ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years ...
Brian Greene (Cosmic String Theory) and Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel have collaborated on a National Geographic coffee-table ...
New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and ...
Astronomers at UC Berkeley have identified mysterious Earth-sized spots at Jupiter’s poles with rapid life cycles.
Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying.
The dark UV ovals were first spotted by NASA’s Hubble spacecraft in the late 1990s, but have only recently been studied in ...
NASA has made a remarkable discovery while flying over the arctic ice in Greenland during an April 2024 survey. The radar ...
The sharp resolution of Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) also brings into focus details of the galaxy’s outer ring, ...
The infrared-light image captured by the JWST's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals the galaxy in a totally different way ...