While dust is easy to ignore in small quantities (says the writer looking at her desk), across vast reaches of…
Get those binoculars ready: an icy interloper from the Oort cloud is about to grace the night sky. The comet…
Astronomers have announced Nobel Prize-worthy evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime — providing the first…
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Billowing gas clouds and young stars feature in this February Hubble Space Telescope image, released as the telescope approaches its…
Last week the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) stated rather nonchalantly that they will be hosting a press conference on…
Congratulations to Cristovao Jacques and the SONEAR team! On March 13 they snared C/2014 E2 (Jacques) in CCD images taken with a…
It’s a tough old universe out there. A young star has lots to worry about, as massive stars just beginning…
Is it stretching it too far to think of a Lord of the Rings-esque "Entmoot" when reading the phrase "Council…
In astronomy we love focusing on the bigger picture. We’re searching for exoplanets in the vast hope that we may…