A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

Skywatchers will get a rare, extended solar eclipse on August 2, 2027, when a total solar eclipse, the longest in 100 years, ...

Inverclyde astronomical expert and Tele columnist Stephen McAllister takes us on a guided tour of the spectacular .

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it was an injury and ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

All 88 internationally recognised constellations have European origins. But First Nations astronomy tells older, beautiful ...

More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...

Two millenniums before blastoff, astronomy belonged as much to the realms of art, philosophy and religion as it did to what ...

SKYWATCH: Stars’ positions were once found by calculating an offset from the closest epoch, a somewhat tedious exercise in ...

Astronomers may have detected signs of an ancient, untouched cluster of icy objects far beyond Neptune, offering new clues about how the early solar system formed, according to a report by NDTV citing ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine distant galaxies in the far reaches of the early universe for the first time. Some of these have chemical signatures that seem ...