The Royal Observatory Greenwich will celebrate its 350th anniversary with a major redevelopment, enhancing visitor access and galleries.

Having recently read S J Parris’s novel Alchemy, set in 16th century Prague, and finding myself in the Czech capital on a ...

Our ability to study faint radio signals from when the first stars began to form is being threatened by SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which seem to be unintentionally leaking radio signals that ...

GPS helps everyone from moms and dads and Amazon drivers to ship's captains get where they need to go. How did ships navigate in the days before GPS?

Barlow Planetarium, 1478 Midway Road, Menasha, will host several events and shows in honor of National Astronomy Day from noon to 9:30 p.m. May 3.

What makes Babylonian astronomy stand out as being especially scientific is the careful, organized way in which Babylonian scribes – their keepers of knowledge – observed, recorded and ...

Mark your calendar for these astronomical events in 2025, including lunar eclipses, planetary sightings, meteor showers, and more.

The parade of planets isn’t necessarily a rare astronomical event, said Gary Baker, president of the Peninsula Astronomical Society and chairperson at Foothill Observatory.

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

Pacific Northwest stargazers have a lot to look forward to in 2025 – even if there’s no solar eclipse on the calendar. On this week’s episode of Peak Northwest, we highlight some of this ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that it was not built to observe the heavens.