We need to think more carefully about how we categorise the universe, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein NASA’s James Webb Space ...

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A local astronomy group gathered Friday evening to see the "Parade of the Planets". The Astronomy Club of Augusta gave dozens of stargazers the opportunity to see the rare celestial event.

"Astronomy is the bridge between life on Earth and everything else happening in the universe, whether it be our Moon, the sun, or an ancient galaxy billions of light-years away," Brian Lada, a ...

“That quote by Mae Jemison sums up a lot of the sentiment expressed in this book,” Imara says. Raised in Oakland, Imara is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Department of Astronomy and a professor at UC ...

Explore how astronomy was part of the cultural exchange that took place along the Silk Road, which connected regions across Eurasia and beyond. Discover lesser-visited ancient observatories and ...

Astronomer Damian Peach won Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 with this stunning image of Jupiter and its moons Io and Ganymede. Paul Abel visits his home in Selsey to find out why the ...

Recently discovered by an amateur astronomer, asteroid 2024 YR4 has seen its chances of hitting Earth increase. According to Dr. Robin George Andrews, a London-based volcanologist and author ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

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Just three years ago, on Dec. 25, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope launched to tremendous fanfare, non-stop news articles, and presentations packed with scientists and non-scientists wondering wha ...