Along with Leo, there are two other members of the cat family that are currently well situated and close together in the ...

Tell the story of early American science with an online exhibition and digital reproduction of the oldest surviving Anglo-American star map. This hand-drawn star map, created in 1780, reflects a story ...

from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special events like meteor showers. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can ...

An international team of researchers led by astronomers from Leiden University (Netherlands) has produced the first sharp ...

Muon Space, an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates mission-tailored low-earth orbit (LEO) ...

What did our ancestors think when they looked up at the night sky? All cultures ascribed special meaning to the Sun and the Moon, but what about the pearly band of light and shadow we call the Milky ...

Muon Space plans a 2026 launch of its FireSat constellation, a group of small satellites designed to spot wildfires.

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 ...

Apr. 30, 2024 — Researchers have successfully used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 ...

Airbus has launched the Pléiades Neo Next program to expand its very high-resolution Earth observation constellation. This ...

By Kenneth Chang A new map of the center of the Milky Way galaxy ... helping to start an ongoing era of viral videos of space and astronomy. President Biden wants companies that use American ...

Related: Night sky, April 2024: What you can see tonight [maps] As the winter stars begin ... Leo is among the most ancient of the constellations, with a backward-question mark curve of six ...