Xuelong 2, one of the ships from China's 41st Antarctic expedition team, departs on a nearly seven-month mission to ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked a rare and fast-moving magnetar – called SGR 0501+4516 – as it speeds ...

A MAN who helped Jodrell Bank to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site has received a special gift to mark his retirement.

Dobsonians are reflecting telescopes constructed from cheap materials ... might be deflected to prevent such a catastrophe. Amateur radio astronomers recorded the outcries of colliding galaxies ...

For example, a 1-meter diameter astronomical telescope is 2 million times larger than the wavelength of sunshine ascertained giving it a resolution of roughly zero.3 arc seconds, whereas a radio ...

Save the date for Chicago's top fundraisers, exhibitions, galas and performances in 2025. Lesly and David Koo at the 2023 ...

Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle surrounding you on the horizon, divide it into 360 little bits, ...

The dream of finding life on an alien Earth-like world is hampered by a number of technical challenges. Not the least of ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There ...