From Atacama to Patagonia, Chile makes extremes easy with dark-sky nights, glacier days and coastal dinners.

Light pollution and satellite swarms have become an increasingly significant problem over time, spiking in 2019 and ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

In 1925, Payne-Gaposchkin became the first person to earn a doctoral degree (PhD) in astronomy from Harvard University. Her ...

Professor Clive Ruggles’ lecture will discuss how British prehistoric monuments were interpreted as ‘ancient observatories’ ...

Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The ...

While scholars like Copernicus undoubtedly learned from the Islamic world, this was a two-way street, stressed Morrison.

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

According to NASA, the Leonids this year were particularly swift, hurtling at 44 miles per second, and are named for their apparent radiant point in the constellation Leo. Every 33 years or so, the ...

Professor of physics and astronomy Darryl Stanford uses the planetarium at the College of San Mateo to show what can be seen ...

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...