Astronomy is increasingly code-heavy and focused on in-house development. Given the huge amounts of data generated with every night of telescope observations, it is, unsurprisingly, one of the first ...

Medieval chronicles occasionally recorded unusual astronomical events that puzzled observers of the time. One account ...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is alarmed by the threat to ground-based astronomy posed by proposals put forward by ...

This video explains the history, scientific impact, and eventual collapse of the Arecibo Telescope, and why its loss marked a ...

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, ...

This world is part of a planetary system with four other planets, including a super-Venus and a possibly habitable ...

SpaceX's plan to launch one million orbiting data centers to space worries astronomers, who say the satellite streaks caused by the proposed constellation would severely impair observations.

Superconductors are among the most puzzling materials in physics. They conduct electricity with zero resistance, but only ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

Astronomers have witnessed evidence of an extremely violent collision between planets, and it resembles the event in Earth's history that created the moon.

Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with what people think is up and what is down. Things fall down toward the ground, but that direction depends on where you are.

The Franklin Institute will celebrate International Astronomy Day with a lineup of space-themed activities on Saturday, April ...