As someone that has always lived in the UK countryside, I am no stranger to the glory of a dark star-filled sky. Sadly, 60% ...

A new catalog providing information on millions of distant galaxies, which determines their distances with unprecedented ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Cosmology scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have made a rare discovery: a cluster of galaxies that span ...

"Each year at the start of autumn, my thoughts turn to the mid-1950s, during the 'golden age of giant bug movies' featured at ...

Madison, Wis., and its blossoming suburbs are drawing newcomers for tech and health care jobs. With a swing state in the ...

Scientists are reflecting on lessons learned with the completion of removal this summer of the Caltech telescope from the ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in 2015, has offered the best-yet estimates of how dark deep space truly ...

Researchers have developed a model for revealing what the color of a galaxy tells about its distance, to be used for measuring cosmic structures. Using telescopic observations and spectroscopy, ...

When you work on a deep geologic time scale, you’re bound to be late once in a while. ReBecca Hunt-Foster, the paleontologist ...