University of Ferrerra researchers reported on the evolution of European skin, eye and hair pigmentation over the last 45,000 ...

Researchers and students from the University of Würzburg are tracking asteroids with a telescope on the Hubland Campus. The ...

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

The Sun is slowly setting, it is a beautiful clear sky, and I am in the northern Prague district of Ďáblice inside a long wooded park called Ďáblický háj, which is approximately 60 hectares in size.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for ...

Learn about the life and scientific contributions of Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer known for his laws of ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...

How did the great modern scientific adventure related to the discovery and study of celestial bodies and the cosmos begin?

Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...