Inverclyde astronomy expert Stephen McAllister explains how he went about capturing the Andromeda galaxy on camera.

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

DID you know there’s a place in the UK so dark that you can see planets, shooting stars, and even the Northern Lights. There’s an observatory in Northumberland nestled in a huge ...

For many years, scientists have tried to understand how the Milky Way is positioned in space, and how it moves together with ...

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.

New research suggests that the Milky Way and our entire Local Group of galaxies are embedded in a vast sheet of dark matter, challenging traditional cosmological models.

The enigma ties in with the American astronomer Edwin Hubble’s discovery nearly a century ago that the universe is expanding.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

India's diverse geography from high-altitude cold deserts to vast salt flats offers some of the most pristine "Dark Sky" ...

Earth's moon is both the brightest and the largest object in the night sky, in terms of apparent size, making it a ...

The solution to a persistent astronomical question that has puzzled scientists for half a century has emerged not from direct ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...