Triangle is a formation of stellar bodies called an asterism, made up of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair.

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

Avid stargazers in Malaysia often take trips within the country to spots where stars are more visible. Read more at ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Explore the warped spiral galaxy NGC 3718 and its neighbor NGC 3729 — a dynamic duo of deep-sky oddities in the constellation Ursa Major.

Wolves, strawberries and sturgeon may not seem connected at first glance, but each one represents a specific full moon tied ...

On July 10, 2025, witness the mesmerizing Buck Moon, a unique micromoon enhanced by a major lunar standstill. Discover the ...

The sky exhibits a unique spatial polarization pattern by scattering the unpolarized sun light. Just like insects use this unique angular pattern to navigate, we use it to map pixels to directions on ...

There’s a chance we could see a white dwarf star explosion this year. T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system and recurrent nova located roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth, is expected to erupt ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

This would reveal the structure and shape that the ring could have been, and whether it could cast a large shadow. This data ...

PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...