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The article recounts the author's personal journey into astronomy, highlighting several influential beginner astronomy guidebooks from various eras, including "Stars: A Guide to the Constellations," ...

The citations found at the end of research papers serve several purposes, like providing background on the current work and giving proper credit where it’s due. They can also, according to a new study ...

The Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who lived around 120 BCE, usually gets credit for discovering the equinoxes and their relationship to the zodiac constellations. But in a controversial new study, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had both positive and negative impacts on astronomy research, where overall the number of research papers being produced increased, but the number of new or junior ...

Astronomers are once again ringing alarm bells about rising light pollution destroying pristine night skies. This time, though, their worries extend beyond their core discipline. "We astronomers are ...

Perseid Meteor Shower in 2017 with astronomical observatory in the foreground. A group of astrophysicists in France have turned their attention away from the stars to focus on what they can do to ...

As SpaceX, Amazon, and others vie for supremacy in the race to establish constellations of communications satellites, the superhighway used by low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites is becoming dangerously ...

SpaceX’s Starlink faces safety complaints from China and rival companies. As Elon Musk says there’s plenty of room in space and the race to expand satellite internet networks ramps up, WSJ looks at ...