One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other telescopes, the Rubin Observatory is working to capture the night sky in real-time ...
As Delhi’s air quality plunges to “severe” levels and doctors advise residents to leave the city for cleaner air, the hills are calling not just for the freshness they offer, but for the breathtaking ...
Siddharth Patel wants nights to be dark. This 12-year-old from London, Ont., is a citizen scientist with Globe At Night, measuring light pollution in his own neighbourhood. He is also a DarkSky ...
A recent astronomical observation has sparked intrigue in the scientific community. A faint glow detected in the Milky Way could potentially be a footprint of dark matter, a mysterious cosmic ...
As the clocks are wound back and the nights draw in, residents across Essex are looking up at the twinkling stars in the sky.
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have released an incredible image of the Milky Way shining in low-frequency radio light, revealing a spectacular realm ...
Nov. 17: The Leonid Meteor Shower should be best from 1 a.m. to dawn. Under dark sky conditions, the Leonids exhibit a maximum of about 10 to 15 meteors per hour. Nov. 5: Full hunter supermoon — ...
Researchers have believed that Segue 1, a puny galaxy orbiting the Milky Way just 75,000 light-years away, was packed with dark matter, a substance in space that doesn't shine or interact with light.
The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...
The “most pristine” star ever seen may have just been discovered at the edge of the Milky Way. It could be the direct ...
Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...
"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...