The newly detected Zhúlóng galaxy shares many similar features with the Milky Way galaxy and has been named after a mythical ...

Pluto and other celestial bodies like Ceres, 2003 UB313 does not fit this ... Uranus: It was the first planet to be discovered with the help of a telescope by William Herschel in 1781.

Some astronomers noted that the controversy would really take off if more sensitive telescopes started to ... So, like Xena and Ceres, the largest asteroid in a band between Mars and Jupiter ...

With its crisp air, star-studded skies, and the occasional dusting of snow, Sutherland in the Northern Cape is fast becoming ...

For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in ...

"We found that the momentum of the ensuing explosion is enough to eject the surrounding highly shocked rock material into ...

Just how powerful is the world's most powerful telescope? Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is a masterwork of engineering and human ingenuity. Hubble is comparable in size and weight to a large school bus, but its contributions to science and astronomy could ...

The Blue Prince Observatory offers some permanent upgrades via the telescope puzzle. The players can unlock the constellations with the simple alignment of the telescope and collect the stars.

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...