Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...

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.

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

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.

Famous scientists don’t begin as Ph.D. scholars, ... Following his discovery, Herschel was appointed Royal Astronomer and spent the rest of his life studying the heavens, ...

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 ...