The object that would become known as both the Great January Comet of 1910 and the Daylight Comet was first seen Jan. 12 in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s unclear who precisely discovered it, but some ...

Astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, AI-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived data.

In 1959, NASA posthumously named the Goddard Space Flight Center in honor of Robert Goddard’s lifetime of work in rocketry, physics, and space travel. But his journey from a youth spent reading ...

As much as I love looking at the night sky, my love for astronomy really grew with the books I read. People often ask what books I would recommend for those interested in the subject, so this list ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

The Callanish Standing Stones on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis date back to around 3000 BCE. Excavations reveal earlier wooden ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

From the very start, in all Indian dance forms, especially the classical, seemingly micro-positions of the fingers called ...

A stronomers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to find hundreds of "anomalies" in data from the Hubble Telescope. More ...

History podcasts offer millions of listeners what classrooms and textbooks often cannot: making the past feel urgent, human ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...