“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

Saturn is a big planet and even though it's getting hit with space debris every day, we've never captured it on camera, but ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

Explore the jaw-dropping astro images shortlisted for this year's competition, and let's guess who might take home the ...

The 1603 Sphaera stellifera globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu showcases cutting-edge 17 th-century astronomy in three dimensions.Designed by printmaker Jan Saenredam, it is also stunningly beautiful ...

Gaze into the Snow Globe: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher. NGC 6781 is a great example of a planetary nebula — and one of Dave’s favorite deep-sky objects.

Astronomy at that time played a key role in helping seafarers and travelers navigate the globe, and so, first, government-funded observatories, the Paris Observatory and the Royal Greenwich ...

Once again, we’ve scoured the astro-marketplace to find the finest, most practical, and most innovative products for Astronomy magazine’s Star Products, 2024 edition. This collection of 35 ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

Now in its 17th year, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is open for submissions. The competition is organized by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, England, in association ...