June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy. To celebrate, we're ...

Long before telescopes brought the sky into closer view, native peoples around the world made astronomical observations, recording them with stories passed down through generations. The legends and ...

This is the first time the novel imaging technique has been applied to telescopes. For the first time, astronomers have ...

The landscape of astronomy really changed in the 1860s, when the development of spectroscopy ushered in a new era of understanding the universe: the era of astrophysics. Finally, astronomers could ...

Modern astronomy has clung to the belief that the relativistic outflows or jets, responsible for the existence of electromagnetic radiation of particularly high energies, are located in the nuclei of ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Astronomy is one of the most ancient sciences that humanity has ever pursued. Since the dawn of civilisation, mankind has gazed at the night sky, awed and inspired by its black emptiness, the apparent ...

A mysterious remnant from a rare type of supernova recorded in 1181 has been explained for the first time. Two white dwarf stars collided, creating a temporary 'guest star,' now labeled supernova (SN) ...

Researchers using new simulations suggest that the Milky Way’s past collisions may have reshaped its dark matter core. This ...

The intricate relationship between ancient civilizations and the cosmos has always been a subject of fascination. Recent archaeological discoveries have unveiled a compelling correlation between the ...