In lab notes for an Astronomy Lab I class, the teaching assistant added a section unrelated to the course subject, titled “Astronomy in Palestine,” The Columbia Spectator reports. According to a ...

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

This course provides an introduction to modern observational methods used in astronomy. Ground and space-based telescopes and detectors, imaging techniques and imaging, as well as spectroscopy, will ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

This course provides an overview of extragalactic astronomy with an emphasis on the development of large-scale structures and galaxy formation. The first part of the course deals with the development ...

A*AA/AAAA to include A-level Mathematics and Physics grades A*A (or AA as part of the four A level offer) ...

From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...

An unexpected television signal traced to an airplane led to a new method for pinpointing unwanted radio signals, as growing ...

Astronomers sifting through data from the Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope in Western Australia, found themselves ...

Using the X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), Indian astronomers have observed an X-ray binary system known as GX 9+1. Results of the ...

The Board of Trustees approved the promotion of 16 assistant professors to the position of associate professor with tenure at ...