To keep the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at peak performance, ESO engineers carefully recoat its enormous mirrors.
The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...
Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century ...
No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp ...
“It’s possible that the mice weren’t seeing them,” admits Shin, “because the technique has involved a relatively small number of neurons, for technical limitations. But in the future, one could expand ...
The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other ...
Whether it is salt flats in Bolivia or rock formations in Arizona, nature never ceases to amaze.