On nights with little to no ambient light from the moon, a ghostly glow shaped like a hazy pyramid of light can be seen for a ...

Astronomers have found early evidence of the Universe’s transformation from a foggy, opaque state to a transparent one, ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and the Pythagoreans.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Vera Rubin, M.S. ’51, the pioneering astronomer whose groundbreaking research on galaxy rotation rates provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter, will be honored on a U.S. Quarter ...

This repository contains the helm charts for deploying the Astronomer Platform into a Kubernetes cluster. Astronomer is a commercial "Airflow as a Service" platform that runs on Kubernetes. Source ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind’s first-ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy. The image, which was presented to ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research published in Nature Astronomy from an ...

We tied 7th in the UK for the quality of our Physics research environment, with 75% considered to be conducive to producing research of world-leading quality and enabling outstanding impact, in terms ...

Anne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, will soon be working with NASA to take a closer look at Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Verbiscer is one of eight ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three separate bodies orbiting one another in a complex triad. This rare ...