Imagine the closest star beyond the Sun has a planet orbiting it about the size of Earth. Visualize what your sunset would look like on th...

The research group I work with has made a fantastic poster about how galaxies form in the cosmic web and how we use computer simulations to ...

Comets have long been portents of change. They challenge the rote repetition of our skies. An astute observer of the sky will perhaps have r...

There is a new object in the sky. Comet ISON is an icy wanderer making its first and probably last last trip into the solar system from its ...

ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is the most complex and ambitious astronomical observatory ever completed. And it is...

Almost a decade ago when astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at an apparently featureless patch of the sky they were rewarded wit...

Find a dark place on a late night this weekend to enjoy the Perseid meteor shower. You can even participate in citizen science by counting ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson shares some thoughts on his life and his experience in astrophysics.

Perhaps at first the images seem like the brush strokes of artist infatuated with geometry and abstract forms. Then precise patterns becomes...

A dissociative galaxy cluster is a cluster of galaxies that just can't keep it together any longer. This may sound like an unnecessary ...

I can't tell if Charles Pellerin, the director of NASA astrophysics at the time the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, is a re...

Cabinet Magazine has an interesting cultural perspective on human's attempts to zoom in and out of nature in the vertical. Particularly...

A bright object has appeared conspicusouly in the outer spiral arm of the local galaxy M95 38 million light years away in the constellation...

'Dedicated to those who dream of exploring the solar system, and those who are sharing their experiences while doing it.'

Proffesor Frédéric Pont at the University of Exeter has simulated what sunsets on planets orbiting distant stars  would look like. What doe...

Wow, there really is something new to learn everyday.

Perhaps it is cruel to snuff out the shinning gleam in the eyes of a person who upon hearing that I am an astronomer exclaims, "Oh, I l...

Murchison, AUSTRALIA - Building a radio telescope is nothing like working on an optical telescope, except that both bring you to remote area...

The present does not exist. All notions of the present are built upon the history of light. Patricio Guzmán's makes these surreal claims...

Naming the Unknown is a new series where I highlight interesting papers in astrophysics. Research papers which I find compelling or of gener...