Mauna Kea When you think of the tallest mountains, instinctively, Mount Everest comes to mind. But here's a shocker: Mauna ...

Venus appears low in the evening sky, guiding us to Saturn. Jupiter makes an attractive sight below the Hyades and Mars ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition in June.

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...

The concert concluded with Li's The Majestic Land, which portrays the grandeur of China's landscapes throughout the day, from ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

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Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...

The young protostar T Tauri is about to be eclipsed by a huge disk of gas and dust that could prompt the star to fade or even disappear.

Collaboration published the first image of a black hole, of M87* from the center of the galaxy M87. The measurement data on which the image was based was obtained in 2017. The EHT Collaboration has ...