Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

UCT hosted Italian astrophysicist Dr Grazia Umana to mark the conclusion of RADIOMAP, a three-year South Africa–Italy ...

The structure of gas and dust resembles a glowing diamond ring / Computer simulations and observations made on board the ...

After only one year of operations, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission has begun to unravel the mystery of why galaxies take on different shapes and how these different shapes relate to each ...

The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...

In a move that has electrified the scientific community, NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive ...

Observatory historian Kevin Schindler said since the passing of Percival Lowell, his endowment has been funding the majority ...

When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...

Comet C/2025 V1 (Borisov), discovered by an amateur astronomer, is captivating scientists. Its unusual orbit initially ...

The first confirmed sighting of a giant explosion on a nearby star has been spotted by astronomers. They observed an ...