In the process of describing the Mandala, my feeling, during those days, was that in the morning I was dying to the earthly life and becoming born to the celestial life, while in the evening it ...

Jaw-dropping pictures show Venus dazzling in the darkness tonight as a rare cosmic phenomena takes place. The planet could be seen floating above the moon from some parts of the UK just hours ...

The best meteor shower of the year will be happening tonight as the annual Quadrantid takes place in the skies above the UK. Considered one of the most impressive annual meteor shower by Nasa, the ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare group of five dwarf galaxies located relatively close to Earth; these galaxies exist in a near-perfect alignment, resembling a string of cosmic pearls in the sky.

Connecting the cosmic dots As mentioned, the ΛCDM model fails to account for certain phenomena based on recent observations. These include the disagreement between direct and indirect ...

For this study, the researchers used the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. The spectrograph measured how light from nine distant quasars—ultra-bright sources of light in ...

There was more flaying than I expected, though not necessarily more than I wanted, at “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.” Any visitors going to the Met’s exhibition in search of ...

A rare astronomical event with a dark nickname is expected tonight, although we will not be able to see it exactly. Known as the black moon, it is the second new moon inside a calendar month when ...

NASA had just launched the Swift satellite about a month before. Swift was designed to detect high-energy cosmic explosions from billions of light-years away, yet it was unprepared for SGR 1806-20 ...

Like its historical predecessors, this mandala is a cosmic chart, but one of a cosmos in distress. Traditional Tibetan motifs of clouds and waves are here peppered with industrial spills and ...