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The CSIRO took less than two weeks to map three million galaxies using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), a world-leading radio telescope system.  ASKAP also broke records as ...

The fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths have been discovered near a supermassive black hole. "This new ...

In June 1962, an Aerobee 150 sounding-rocket blasted above the Earth’s atmosphere from the White Sands Missile Range ...

A new image taken by the APEX telescope in Chile provides one of the sharpest pictures of the ...

The most luminous objects in the cosmos are actually invisible to the naked eye. They are called "blazars," ...

A plethora of missing matter problems besieges astronomy.

When astronomers point their telescopes up at the sky to see distant supernovae or quasars, they’re collecting light ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered the most detailed record ever of a fast radio burst.

Financiers gave the green light for construction to begin on the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), which will become ...

Two new exoplanets discovered via NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope are more like our own planet than any far-off ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has decided to build a massive space telescope on top of Cerro Armazones ...

When astronomers look at the universe on a grand scale—when they step back to view the arrangement of ...

A perplexing gamma ray burst that seemed to move across a supermassive black hole faster than the speed ...

ALMA, the world's most powerful telescope, produced a one-of-a-kind image of a system giving birth to planets.

Astronomers world-wide are gearing up for what NASA calls a “once in a lifetime” event: the Comet Siding ...

Scientists have recently postulated an unorthodox way to detect life on other planets. Assuming intelligent life has reached ...

Astronomers have detected very fast bursts of radio waves coming from deep in outer space and they don’t ...

A comet carrying enough water to fill a small lake provided astronomers with the first tangible evidence to ...

NASA revealed yesterday that the iconic Great Red Spot on Jupiter has shrunk to its smallest size ever ...

What's it like to lead a NASA project that could revolutionize our understanding of the universe? John Mather ...

Dr. John C. Mather won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics along with George F. Smoot for their ...

People around the world are being invited to learn how to hunt for planets, using two new online ...

It's a beautiful universe ... take the tour.

Construction has started on Canada’s largest radio telescope, the first to be built in more than three decades.

This new picture of the sky contains over 200,000 galaxies as seen by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The vibrant interactions between hundreds of galaxies in the Hercules galaxy cluster have been imaged by the European ...