Born Nov. 2, 1885, In Missouri, Harlow Shapley earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1913. From 1914 to 1921, he was ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just made its closest pass of the sun, setting it on an ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...