An internationally-recognised expert on black hole astrophysics, Sera Markoff, has become the first woman to be appointed as ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

The night was cold and clear, no wind, and the only sound was boots crunching on snow. Just half an hour after parking my car ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

Using the combined might of spacecraft scattered across the Solar System, scientists have built the most detailed map yet of the boundary where the Sun's magnetic push no longer accelerates the solar ...

Sunlight looks smooth and white to the naked eye, but when I break it apart with a prism or a spectrograph, it turns out to ...

By Larry Barnett Linda Shore and her husband David Barker, Sonoma residents for the past 20 years, have traveled to Northern ...

It turns out we can also move vast bands of radiation and make them into a barrier around our planet, even though we had no ...