Dec. 6, retired assistant director for science communications at NASA’s Goddard Space Center Michelle Thaller hosted the annual Christmas lecture sponsored by Notre Dame’s College of Science.

On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. The Andromeda galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, and ...

The Milky Way seems to be currently colliding with one of its galactic neighbors, and that discovery might change how we ...

Using data from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT), built at the CREST campus and launched by ISRO, scientists ...

Astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have spotted far ultra violet (FUV) emissions from novae for the first time in the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy. The ultraviolet ...

"As fascinating as the galaxy appears at visible wavelengths, some of NGC 5643's most interesting features are invisible to ...

The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...

ISRO’s AstroSat detects rare nuclear explosions in Andromeda Galaxy Ultraviolet emissions observed from 42 novae during ...

In a new study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Prof. Dasyra of the National and Kapodistrian ...

Astronomers have employed the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to observe an ultra-diffuse galaxy known as VCC 615. Results of ...

Messier 83 was discovered in 1752, but it wasn't realized that it's actually a galaxy outside the Milky Way until Edwin ...

According to NASA, on Oct. 14, 2024, the Europa Clipper was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launched in ...