Inverclyde astronomy expert Stephen McAllister explains how he went about capturing the Andromeda galaxy on camera.

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability ...

Peter Aleshire’s article about Meteor Crater, published in the Jan. 16 Independent, combined in my mind with an article I wrote that was published on Nov. 22, 2024 about the ...

Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu holding their photo The Andromeda Core. [Provided to China Daily] A former category winner from China in one of the world's top photography competitions has gone ...

Molecular clouds are huge masses of gas and dust that are remnants of galaxy formation.

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Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The evidence is a stream of gas called the ...

Just how far can we see on a clear, dark night? If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that the stars overhead lie many trillions of miles away, but these make up only a tiny fraction of ...