Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed surprising activity inside the Andromeda galaxy. The data ...

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 ...

A star in the Andromeda Galaxy has inexplicably vanished, leaving behind a puzzling red light source that is baffling astronomers.

Scientists have released a detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy that took over a decade to complete. The project required ...

High in the trans-Himalayan landscape of Ladakh lies Hanle, a remote village cradled by rugged mountains and vast silence. Often called the roof of the world, Hanle is India’s first officially ...

DID you know there’s a place in the UK so dark that you can see planets, shooting stars, and even the Northern Lights. There’s an observatory in Northumberland nestled in a huge ...

A range of gorgeous skywatching targets are visible to the naked eye in city skies.

India's diverse geography from high-altitude cold deserts to vast salt flats offers some of the most pristine "Dark Sky" ...

Discover the limits of human sight: from a 3-mile horizon and candle flames 2.8 km away to seeing galaxies 2.5 million ...

There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability ...

Beyond the auroras, Hanle remains India’s most important stargazing destination and a dark sky reserve ...