Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has just made its closest pass to the Sun, and it's brighter than scientists expected.

In the run-up to the Royal Astronomical Society’s high-profile annual meeting – hosted this year by the University of Bath (July 19-23) – the prime minister has announced an important new prize for ...

A telescope is seen in the observatory at Minnesota State University Moorhead Regional Science Center, adjacent to Buffalo River State Park near Glyndon, Minnesota. MOORHEAD — A professor in the ...

For 300 years, the Royal Observatory at Greenwich Park in London was the center of the scientific world, in some cases literally—the Prime Meridian, the line of 0 degrees longitude dividing the ...

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Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe saw a "new and unusual star" in the November 1572 sky. He called it a new star, or "stella nova". This astronomical event changed the way the scientific world viewed the ...

Saturn and Jupiter are easy to spot in the early evening sky now. During the winter and early spring these planets were at their best when they reached their respective oppositions to the Sun (Saturn ...