The identification of this massive water reservoir marks a significant milestone in astronomical research. Surrounding the ...

The winter stars are like that. They're bright, sparkly and arrive "from a distance" low on the eastern horizon and gradually ...

Most of this activity lacks sufficient punch to harm us… but every now and then, the Sun erupts with a flare powerful enough to do serious damage. And we don't know how often such events occur.

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic phenomenon: an extremely high-energy particle, dubbed the Amaterasu particle, ...

Instead of operating in 0s and 1s, such as “classical computers,” a quantum computer uses much smaller units of computation ...

It can feel like a brain teaser, but the universe is considered everything within the universe. In the expanding universe, ...

If using a regular camera, the northern lights are best captured with a wide-angle lens, high ISO value and focus set to the ...

A pair of satellites astronomers hope can create an artificial eclipse were launched from a site in India last week.

Following the eruption of an X-class solar flare, shortwave radio blackouts were observed over southern Africa, the area ...

Legendary Active Galaxy Contains a Monster Black Hole Amateur astronomers can observe an extraordinary celestial object known as 3C 273, the most distant target visible through a standard backyard ...

There are lots of precautions to take when it comes to ensuring nuclear fusion occurs successfully, as described in a recent ...

Jupiter is at opposition, so it is directly opposite the sun in our sky — rising at sunset. A view from high above the solar ...