A new type of object found in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for years, but they may finally have some answers.

The Quad Cities club invites you out to its next public observation night on Oct. 3 in Rock Island's Longview Park.

An old seafaring instrument could help astronauts on ever more far-flung and perilous missions. MOONS, which was built by a team lead from Scotland, has started its work at the Very Large Telescope in ...

See all the winning images of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition in 2026 – world's biggest astro imaging ...

Second only to black holes, neutron stars—incredibly dense star remnants—are the densest objects in the universe. When neutron stars collide, they create ripples in the fabric of space and time that ...

Astronomers have detected an enormous cloud of gas tens of millions of degrees hot surrounding one of the most extreme structures known in the early universe. The study offers one of the clearest ...

Born Sept. 27, 1918, and educated at Bradfield College and Oxford University in the U.K., Martin Ryle would go on to be the ...

SHARJAH, 25th September, 2026 (WAM) -- Prof. Hamid M.K. Al Naimiy, Director of the Sharjah Space and Astronomy Hub (SSAH) at the University of Sharjah, received a delegation from the Innovation ...