We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

Stargazers can see the universe like never before when the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils its first images from the ...

About 200 years later, the Egyptian polymath and author of the famous astronomy book Almagest, Claudius Ptolemy, refined the order of stars within these six levels.

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian and ...

The galactic masterpiece combines over 100 exposures to reveal previously unseen features of stars in formation.

Scientists found tungsten in Brahe's lab, and they're not sure how it got there. A chemical mystery lurks in the laboratory of Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous astronomers of all time.

The decade-long wait for U.K. astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.

Astronomers have tried two main methods to figure it out, ... Famous mathematician Kurt Gödel introduced the idea of a rotating universe in 1947. Others, including Silk, ...

Astronomers solve decades-long mystery of famous brown dwarf - After a breakthrough discovery in 1995, scientists have made the ‘most exciting and fascinating discovery in substellar ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While famous for devouring anything and everything in its gravitational ...