First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

Van Zuilen captured the ancient nebula light using an Askar 103APO refractor telescope in conjunction with a ZWO manufactured ...

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Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolution ...

Researchers have deciphered a medieval Maya text, the Dresden Codex, revealing its sophisticated method for predicting solar ...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a new way to investigate dark matter by studying faint radio waves from the Universe’s earliest era, known as the cosmic dark ages. Their research ...

Hundreds of pupils attended a bigger, better science fair to take part in experiments across such diverse fields as astronomy and ancient technology.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has been used to find the presence of phosphine (PH₃) in the atmosphere of Wolf 1130C. The ...