"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

It is clear that human beings, throughout history, have always had a constant curiosity to discover everything that happens ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, hydrology, engineering and physics. As a painter, his Mona Lisa and Last ...

A remarkable exhibition of historic astronomical drawings, including sketches believed to have influenced Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, has opened at Armagh Observatory and Planetarium.

The winners of the second annual International Space Art and Poetry Contest were chosen out of 2,700 entries from 35 ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Chile's dark, starry skies, crucial for astronomy, face threats from urban expansion. Astronomers, including Angel Otarola, ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

Wikimedia, CC BY-SA The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned ...

After the cash ran dry two years ago, Vermont taxpayers began footing the bill, drawing from the state’s $2.4 billion Education Fund. “We had a historic increase in property taxes last year ...

The work appears in Nature Astronomy 1. “What makes these results ... Now, researchers have to go back to the drawing board to understand how life might have been seeded on Earth.