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

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 ...

The ringed planet puts on quite a show in April. Often considered the most beautiful world, Saturn reaches opposition — the point in its orbit when it lies opposite the Sun, and thus brightest in our ...

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 ...

Perhaps you’ve seen that viral image that compares the very first image ever taken of Orion all the way back in the 1800’s to the most detailed. What’s not to love about something that shows how much ...

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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 ...

Comet Nishimura has been taking the world by storm. This icy visitor from our outer solar system is speeding through the sky on its way toward the Sun. Now visible less than an hour before dawn, the ...

Two weeks ago, it was hidden behind the Sun, far out of sight. Last week, it reached perihelion, the closest point it will ...

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 ...