The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

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Scientists at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced Sunday that their AliCPT-1 telescope has captured its first crisp images of the moon and ...

Professor Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist from Harvard University, told MailOnline why he thinks a new ...

A recent breakthrough in astronomy has illuminated the mysterious dynamics of a binary star system, HD 135344 AB, where a giant planet was discovered orbiting the primary star— a star that had ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Every time you take off from Heathrow, land at JFK, or pass through any major airport, you might be inadvertently announcing ...

It was only discovered last month (1 July) by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile and NASA was quick to confirm that the ...

Last week, standing with the Bible skeptic Michael on the common ground that science affords, we continued to look to the ...

The constellation Lyra is faint, but it contains Vega, one of the brightest stars in our night sky. As soon as it gets dark ...

The Snaefell Mountain Railway reveals the Isle of Man's forgotten tourism boom – and serves as a gateway to the seven ...