Medieval chronicles occasionally recorded unusual astronomical events that puzzled observers of the time. One account describes a night when witnesses claimed the moon appeared to split in two. Such ...

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

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

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

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

The findings confirm a theory first proposed 16 years ago by University of California, Berkeley theoretical astrophysicist ...

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 ...

A new temporary gallery celebrating space and the world of astronomy is opening at the National Maritime Museum this month, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Noelia Noël, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Surrey, has been awarded this year’s Leadership ...