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 ...

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.

Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, suggesting that galaxies were interacting and shaping their surroundings far ...

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

By measuring the galaxy’s redshift, the scientists behind the discovery were able to confirm that its light has been ...

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 ...

A giant star in the Andromeda Galaxy has vanished without a trace, leaving scientists puzzled and intrigued. First observed ...

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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