Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...
He also worked at Capitol Records, Fox and Disney and earned an Emmy nomination for his work on a ‘Stranger Things’ virtual reality video game.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has just become one of the best tracked visitors ever to barrel through our solar system, thanks to a Mars orbiter that sharpened its trajectory by an order of magnitude.
The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now has a second moon in its orbit. Any thoughts that Earth is now going to be ...
The Orionid meteor shower is expected to peak on the night of Tuesday, October 21. This meteor shower is caused by debris from Halley's Comet burning up in Earth's atmosphere. At its peak, stargazers ...
Giovanni Cassini, director of the Paris Observatory from 1669, utilized a 34-foot Campani refractor to discover Saturn's moon Iapetus on October 25, 1671. Cassini's observations of Iapetus's variable ...
The findings could change how we view planetary systems in their afterlife. A white dwarf star has been caught in the middle of consuming a planetary relic, offering fresh clues as to what happens to ...
Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in the history of astronomy. The New Horizons station is the first man-made object to reach Pluto. Till now, an ...
"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary systems — unchanged and intact." The first-ever detection of heavy water in ...
George Ellery Hale initiated the establishment of Yerkes Observatory in 1892, securing funding from Charles Yerkes for a facility to house two 40-inch telescope lens blanks. Construction commenced in ...