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 ...

You might think only billion-dollar telescopes and professional observatories can contribute to cutting-edge space science.

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 ...

Earth's moon is both the brightest and the largest object in the night sky, in terms of apparent size, making it a ...