Astronomy is increasingly code-heavy and focused on in-house development. Given the huge amounts of data generated with every night of telescope observations, it is, unsurprisingly, one of the first ...

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you're there? Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Andy Weir, who also penned The Martian, Amazon ...

Medieval chronicles occasionally recorded unusual astronomical events that puzzled observers of the time. One account ...

This world is part of a planetary system with four other planets, including a super-Venus and a possibly habitable ...

The Franklin Institute will celebrate International Astronomy Day with a lineup of space-themed activities on Saturday, April ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

The comet contains higher levels of this simple alcohol than almost all known comets from our solar system.

Astronomers have witnessed evidence of an extremely violent collision between planets, and it resembles the event in Earth's history that created the moon.

Astronomers have discovered the brightest fast radio burst ever detected and traced it to a nearby galaxy using a new network of CHIME Outrigger telescopes. The flash, nicknamed RBFLOAT, lasted only a ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

Panaji : The country’s first public astronomical observatory may soon lose its home, with no place to shift after functioning for over four decades at the Junta House in Panaji. The observatory is ...

Associate Professor Hanae Inami at the Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center specializes in astronomy, with a particular focus on galaxies beyond the Milky Way — a field known as extragalactic ...