For most of human history, understanding the night sky was not the preserve of scientists, but a precious tool for our ...

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe three early ultra-massive galaxies, formed shortly after the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

To witness these spectacular displays, check an astronomical calendar for upcoming meteor showers visible from your location.

Since ancient times, the sun has been known as a giver of light ... he certainly did not make a connection to sunspots.

The JWST’s FRESCO program, developed by the team, systematically analyzed emission-line galaxies from the dawn of the ...

Since 1988, a radio signal has been reaching Earth every 22 minutes with remarkable precision, and astronomers have no idea what’s causing it. Explore this mysterious phenomenon that has puzzled ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...

William Dalrymple gives us a near-complete idea of how central India was to everything that happened in the ancient world ...