The views from the Sphinx astronomical observatory, one of the highest in the world, swoop over the Aletsch glacier (the longest in the Alps), a line of 4,000m peaks and the Swiss Plateau all the ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have observed a young stellar object known ...

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

Astronomers have peered into an alien planet's atmosphere and found extreme weather unlike anything in the solar system.

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission's deployable aperture cover—a ...

The Vatican's Arizona location dates back to 1980, when the Vatican partnered with the University of Arizona to study the ...

Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory operates the Subaru 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope in Hawaii. It will become possible for Japanese scientists to cover the universe with the ...

Aerial monitoring by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on February 12 revealed that while episode 9 of Kīlauea’s eruption ended that morning at 8:43 a.m. HST, lava continued to flow in parts of ...

In January 2025, the city added another feather to its cap when it launched a new Astro Trail, a curated collection of ...