In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" -scientifically known as novae -are currently visible to the naked ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

Mark Wood hopes to play alongside Jofra Archer in the Ashes, but both must prove their fitness. Wood aims for the fifth Test return after a knee injury, while Archer is playing red-ball cricket.

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

The globular cluster Messier 22 (M22) reaches its highest point in the sky around midnight local time, specifically for ...

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory showed off a breathtaking preview of its capabilities — capturing millions of stars and galaxies light-years from Earth, along with thousands ...

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...

Ever the trickster, Raven devised a plan to get inside the clan house and glimpse the daylight. He first decided to disguise himself as a speck of dirt in the river from which the old man’s daughter ...

A new study suggests that these Australian insects may be the first invertebrates to use the night sky as a compass during ...

Southern astronomers get to see the Milky Way’s core overhead and enjoy many star clusters and nebulae that are hidden for us ...