My recent visit to Berlin for a planetary science conference coincided with Berlin Art Week. The exhibitions were mostly ...

Whipple Observatory set to reopen with new Science Center, expanding access to astronomy for rural communities ...

Picture walking outside on a dark, cloudless evening. You look up to admire the stars—maybe even a planet, if you're ...

The question remains whether the proposal will give new life to the former site, or be a ghost of its former self.

Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand ...

NSF & the Simons Foundation will jointly fund two new National AI Research Institutes for astronomy. Each institute will ...

The $1.6 billion mission is an extremely complicated engineering challenge and will make gravitational wave detections in ...

Inspired by the half-human, half-horse creatures that are part of Ancient Greek mythology, the field of astronomy has its own ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

The University of Manchester will play a key role in a new European collaboration, which aims to boost accessibility and ...

Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus ...

One of the most sought after locations for the eclipse was remote Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as its called by residents, ...