Our solar system now, once again, officially consists of only eight planets. Although largely debunked, speculation continued ...

First images of light from objects in the Universe are now recorded and split into thousands of colour components4MOST will investigate the formation ...

Earth's moon is occasionally illuminated by flickers, glows or beams of light. What are these mysterious lights?

The International Astronomical Union has named an asteroid after the Victorian stargazer, who studied the skies for 25 years ...

On October 18, 2025, the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at ...

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda ...

Freddie Hill, Head of Development, Berkeley Homes Oxford & Chiltern, said it is ‘unfortunate’ they must close the mostly ...

See the Orion Nebula through the eyes of the ESA's Herschel Space Telescope, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech What Jimmy Kimmel ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...

Ten years ago, on September 28, 2015, the AstroSat was launched by PSLV-C30 (XL) rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota with a mission life of five years. Though the designed mission ...

John Ventre holds up a slice of a partially translucent meteorite from his collection at the Cincinnati Observatory. Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of ...

The algorithm models the blurring incurred by Earth's atmosphere and counteracts it, producing sharp and clear images. A new algorithm capable of transforming ground-based telescope images by removing ...