A successful builder by day and traversing the sky by night, Isaac Roberts took the first clear photograph of Andromeda, the ...

Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art charts the development of astronomical knowledge across continents before and after the Scientific Revolution.

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly ...

SOME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th American president and, to his critics, a might-makes-right, America First ...

D, high-resolution, real-topography models that could provide a more precise path of totality for the next total solar eclipse.