Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Leonard This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent...
Comet FIVE times the size of Jupiter is set to light up the night skies in April – and it could be brighter than Venus The...
Quasar tsunamis discovered by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope erupt in the most energetic outflows of material ever seen. This outpouring of energy wrecks havoc...
When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus in January of 1986, it gave us our first up-close look at the distant ice giant. Now, over...
By David Hill Canterbury’s observatories might be in lockdown, but there is plenty for budding scientists and the superstitious to discover. While the Oxford Area School...
A comet speeding towards the inner solar system could become one of the brightest objects in the night sky, promising the most dramatic display of its...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has taken its highest-resolution panorama image of the surface of Mars to date. Made up of over 1,000 images captured over the Thanksgiving...
In the past few decades, astronomers have been able to look farther into the Universe (and also back in time), almost to the very beginnings of...
our knowledge of the cosmos will change when NASA launches its $10 billion webb telescope in exactly one year, NASA‘s james webb telescope — a tennis...
Image Credit: dimitris_k / Shutterstock.com The rapid analysis of oil spills is vital to the success of their clean up. In a paper published earlier this...
