A recent SpaceNews opinion article argued that it is time to “take astronomy off Earth.” The suggestion is straightforward: If satellite constellations and commercial space activity threaten ...

Found in a 16th-century copy of an ancient astronomy treatise, the annotations suggest that the trailblazing scientist ...

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) organised open campus day to celebrate National Science Day observed on February 28 ...

A six-planet parade — an alignment of Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter — is coming Feb. 28. When and where ...

Thanks to Fink, a software package created by two CNRS engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, ...

A total lunar eclipse is the highlight of the month. For planetary action, Jupiter is well placed most of the night and there are many events involving its Galilean moons. Soon after sunset, ...

In an unprecedented step for South African astronomy, the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere is joining forces with a major global observatory to observe and analyse celestial events ...

Boise will have a partial view of the total lunar eclipse beginning around 2:50 a.m. according to Time and Date. A full view ...

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

The March full moon arrives with a total lunar eclipse. See when to look up and what Florida residents can expect.

The name "Worm Moon" is believed to originate from beetle larvae emerging from thawing tree bark in March. Cloudy and stormy ...

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like Arrokoth can form directly during the gravitational collapse of a dense ...