On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Astronomer Michael R. Blanton will join the Carnegie Science Observatories as its 12th director, overseeing astronomical ...

Bengaluru: India's ultraviolet eye in space, the ultraviolet imaging telescope (UVIT) aboard AstroSat, has reached a ...

IIA celebrates 10 years of UVIT operations on AstroSat, highlighting significant astronomical discoveries and advancements in ultraviolet observation.

Easy: He uses a warp drive, a nifty little propulsion trick that allows the crew to exceed the speed of light by warping ...

In a landmark moment, the Indian Institute of Astrophysics celebrated 10 years of operation of the highly successful UltraViolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board AstroSat. UIVT is the primary ...

For centuries, people thought that the Milky Way was the edge of our universe. That was, until Edwin Hubble found a variable star in the Andromeda galaxy and we were able to literally expand our ...

Cassini detected fresh organic compounds in ice plumes from Enceladus’s subsurface ocean, strengthening the moon’s potential as a habitable environment beyond Earth.

In the heart of a distant spiral galaxy, a cosmic storm has erupted. This event is unlike anything astronomers have seen ...