Astronomers are about to begin making a time lapse of the night sky using the largest digital camera ever constructed. Designed to reveal any new or moving point of light as well as the structure of ...

For centuries, people have looked to the stars, asking how it all began—and how it might end. Now, thanks to a bold new study by physicists from Cornell University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and ...

A new kind of stellar explosion provides a novel way to probe the distant universe, according to new results published today in Nature Astronomy. Researchers from Lancaster University joined a global ...