Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

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.

Pope Leo XIV encouraged young astronomy students at the Vatican this week to “be generous in sharing what you learn and what you experience, as best you can and however you can.” ...

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Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav will inaugurate a national workshop on the theme “Astronomy and Indian Knowledge Tradition” on Saturday, June 21, at the Varahamihira Astronomical Observatory in Dongla, ...

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 ...

Bianco, for example, is the deputy project scientist and interim head of science for the Rubin Observatory. From 2014 through 2021, she chaired the collaboration that deals with “time astronomy,” ...

The Astronomy & Astrophysics group at the SETI Institute is at the forefront of exploring this intricate cosmic pathway, investigating how the composition of this material transforms as it journeys ...

Nature Astronomy is a new online-only journal, publishing monthly from January 2017. Nature Astronomy is a truly multidisciplinary journal for the field, representing — and fostering closer ...