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Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

Carl Sagan wrote in the June 1974 issue of Astronomy: “Clearly the best time to be alive is when you start out wondering and end up knowing. There is only one generation in the whole history of ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

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They’re the team behind “The World According to Sound,” a podcast that’s brought our listeners close to the sounds of science over the last few years. This new series takes listeners through the ...

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I TAKE for the subject of my address the science of astronomy, and propose to give a brief historical sketch of it, to consider its future development and to speak of the influence of the sciences ...

While they revolutionized the science of astronomy, they had some innate downsides. The act of refraction also causes chromatic aberration, a phenomenon that causes colors to get smeared out.

Tributes have been paid to a "towering figure in British astronomy" who has died aged 102. Sir Francis Graham-Smith was believed to be the world's oldest active radio astronomer, according to Jodrell ...

You will be accompanied throughout by Jamie Carter, a freelance science and travel writer with 25 years' experience writing about the night sky, eclipses and astronomy.