More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

The interactive exhibit, organized in partnership with the Embassy of Italy and the Galileo Museum in Florence, showcases the brilliant mind of the astronomer. Perimeter Institute Galileo Exhibit ...

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Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer discovered what appeared to be the “asteroid”, designated 2018 CN41, that appeared to be passing very close to Earth. When it came within less than ...

In a twist, the space community briefly thought they’d discovered an unusual object zipping through space. But the reality turned out to be far more terrestrial. In 2018, Elon Musk’s SpaceX ...

"If I’m being honest, Daksh isn’t as keen about the results as he is about the process of something. Once he got interested in astronomy, I knew he would want to see it through no matter the results," ...

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In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...

Credit: SpaceX/YouTube. Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer stumbled upon what appeared to be a newly discovered near-Earth object (NEO). The “asteroid,” designated 2018 CN41 ...

While that federal ban has been in place for decades, John Barentine of Dark Sky Consulting, a member of AAS’s Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE ...

officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling through the final frontier roughly 150,000 miles from Earth, according to Astronomy magazine. Its distance was closer ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer ...