Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

"Astronomy for our ancestors was very integral to their lives. We needed it for finding food, for learning law [and] knowing how to direct yourselves at night time,” Ms Banks told The Point.

A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from Earth.

Five years of imagery from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have been stitched together to create an all-sky and northern & southern ecliptic mosaics. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and ...

For the first time, scientists have imaged the elusive south pole of the sun. The images captured by the Solar Orbiter ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

Whenever planets are visible in the night sky, they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ecliptic, is the same one that the sun travels along during the year.

The Top 12 Events for 2025 Such is astronomy and skywatching in 2025. First, here's a quick subjective rundown of the dozen very best skywatching events to look forward to in the coming year: The peak ...

Earth rotates on an axis tilted by 23.4 degrees with respect to this ecliptic, causing the sun to rise and set within almost 47 degrees — a range it gradually covers over an entire year.

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China selects new space missions including lunar far side astronomy and terrestrial exoplanet survey Advancing its ambitious agenda in space science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is backing a ...