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, ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and Parkes 64-m telescope, an international team of astronomers has ...

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 have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape.

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

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

WUHAN -- China has unveiled the "Three Gorges Antarctic Eye," a 3.2-meter aperture radio/millimeter-wave telescope, at a scientific research station in Antarctica. Officially launched at the country's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

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

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 ...

From April 13 to 14, 2025, a group of 19 journalists participated in the "Colorful Park Province, Backyard of the Greater Bay ...