Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

Scientists say the storm, driven by heightened solar activity, could cause temporary effects on technology and communications on Earth.

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

According to the cabinet resolution concerning public holidays in the UAE, Eid Al Fitr is celebrated from 1 to 3 Shawwal, with three days of holiday ...

The closure of NASA's largest research library at Goddard Space Flight Center represents a deliberate attack on scientific ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by ...

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

Astronomer Daniel Jaffe has been appointed the next president of the Giant Magellan Telescope Corporation – the international consortium building the $2.5bn Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). He succeeds ...