Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

The astronomical site in peril is Mount Paranal, where the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT ... "maximum increase over the natural sky brightness" over Paranal ...

The Lyrids meteor shower begins on April 17 and peaks April 22. Stargazers can see 18 meteors per hour streaking across the ...

Before it shut down, a telescope in Chile captured the universe's baby photos, just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. These ...

Finding dark skies for stargazing in any city is no easy task – the bright lights of downtown and the floodlights of stadiums ...

In very early February, the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History in Blue Earth had a special visitor. That visit ...

Most people worry about climate change, but few know what to do. The right tools allow us to convert scientific urgency into ...

Amateur astronomers and stargazers are invited to the Ulster Museum this weekend to view a partial solar eclipse with help ...

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