Astronomers from Turkey and Japan have performed optical observations of a recently discovered nearby supernova remnant known ...

A lot of things are symmetrical – cats, dogs (bilateral symmetry), planets, stars (spherical symmetry), galaxies, pies ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

On a wooded knoll on private property in Lake Angelus — less than a mile from the Great Lakes Crossing shopping mall in Auburn Hills — stands a hidden landmark to the history of science ...

The SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART) is a spherical tokamak that can operate with a “negative triangularity” – the first spherical tokamak specifically designed to do so. Work performed on the ...

"It begs the question: how does a spherical star create such intricate and delicate non-spherical structures?" In an attempt to find out, last year, Kastner and his colleagues used the ...

These deformations, associated with three distinct shapes—spherical, oblate (resembling a tomato), and prolate (similar to a watermelon)—exist simultaneously near the ground state. The ...

Just days before, the Moon occults the Red Planet. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly On the 15th, Mars will shine at magnitude –1.4, essentially equaling the luminance of the brightest nighttime ...

At public stargazes and evenings with friends at the telescope, we love to set our eyes on the wonders of Saturn and Jupiter at every opportunity. Year-round, whenever they’re above the horizon ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

Find the best telescopes to unlock the wonders of the night sky and view lunar occultations, celestial conjunctions and planetary parades in January. The best telescope unlocks the wonders of the ...