Observations were made for 13 years, resulting in a data set of 500 terabytes. The mega-project has now come to an end. But ...

Astronomers have published a breathtaking map of the Milky Way. Using special telescopes, the team from the European Southern ...

The European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope has collected more than 500 terabytes of data on our galaxy.

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever ...

The VISTA telescope, which boasts the world’s largest infrared camera, VIRCAM, was developed by the UK Astronomy Technology ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

A gigantic and most detailed map with 1.5 billion celestial objects is now available online, charting our galaxy.

A Tree Pipit is released from the Antikythera Bird Observatory station after being ringed, on the small island of Antikythera ...

LETHBRIDGE [email protected] A Lethbridge company is one of seven across Canada in its category to receive funding from the Canada Space Agency. Blue Sky Spectroscopy Inc. has been ...

Torrential rain from a stalled storm system caused catastrophic flooding in countries such as Poland and Slovakia. In ...

Professional astrologer Steph Koyfman reads your monthly horoscope—and spells out how it may shape your travels.

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