In 1912 Cecilia Payne (later Payne-Gaposchkin), a 12-year-old schoolgirl, decided to carry out her own heavenly research. She ...

Scientists have been searching for a ninth planet to explain the orbital eccentricities of Uranus and Neptune (and dwarf ...

Nicholas Suntzeff doubts the latest round of conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials. But he hasn’t given up on finding ...

ALBAWABA - An astrophysicist has proposed that devastating gamma-ray bursts killed alien civilizations. While life beyond ...

Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger has spent her life hunting for signs of life in the universe. Here she tells Emma Beddington ...

“We have now found another patchy and faint radio structure in the north of the cluster, revealing it as a rare double radio ...

More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena, Calif., institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mount Wilson ...

Kepler realized that the orbits of the planets are not perfect circles. His brilliant insight was that planets move in ...

Rebecca Oppenheimer, a curator and professor at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), delivered a talk on degenerate matter—which includes white dwarfs, neutron stars, and brown dwarfs—on ...

Francis Baily was 21 when he embarked on a tour of the young United States in the late 1790s, including visits to Cincinnati ...

An astronomer has explained why the 2024 solar eclipse is one in ten million year occurrence. North America will be treated to a total solar eclipse today (8 April), plunging into darkness during ...

An astronomer who set out to run seven marathons in a week completed his charity challenge at Sunday's London Marathon. Dr ...