Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Scientists will be able to use the James Webb Space Telescope to help them build a better understanding of Asteroid 2024 YR4.

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

De Gregorio, the ESO's representative in Chile, warns that the country's unique "window onto the universe" could close, ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the ...

But by 2020 only about 800 giant radio galaxies had been found, nearly 50 years since they had been initially discovered.