A look back at the year in science and Jocelyn Bell Burnell features in Titans of Science. Thomas Hitzlsperger, Gemma Fay, Ali Maxwell, Pat Nevin Thomas Hitzlsperger, Gemma Fay, Ali Maxwell ...

As it sets its sights on paving new frontiers in its field, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (Astron) has embarked on a project to upgrade its core access wireless local area network ...

Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists look back at the year in science, and astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell features in Titans of Science. Show more Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientists ...

Here are the best telescopes for looking into deep space — gaze far into the night sky and observe bright stars in Orion and Taurus. The best telescopes for deep space are more specialized than ...

Uranus and Neptune will be there too but will be harder to spot with the naked eye, so if you are planning on observing these two, a telescope is essential. Different telescopes are better suited ...

When you gaze up at the constellation Hercules, you are looking out the front window of the spacecraft called Earth. Our planet is hurtling at some 45,000 mph (72,000 km/h) toward the star Lambda ...

Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that's teetering at the ...

Find the best telescopes to unlock the wonders of the night sky and view lunar occultations, celestial conjunctions and planetary parades in January. "There are telescopes tailored to all sorts of ...

But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ... Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a ...

The reality is less cinematic, but that doesn’t make it boring. Radio telescopes — most famously the ill-fated Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, but also peppered across deserts worldwide ...

The WNYC science program “Radiolab” partnered with the International Astronomical Union to solicit nearly 3,000 submissions. The Roman goddess of doorways and transitions won out. By Remy ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 ...