Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

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What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...

Initially a cosmic curiosity, the night sky was eventually decoded by ancient peoples, making astronomy one of (if not the) oldest science.

Dr. Gregory Feiden, a University of North Georgia (UNG) professor of astronomy, and his research group have spent the past ...

Astronomers discovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf forged in a stellar smash-up and unmasked only by Hubble’s ...

The past century of astronomy has been a series of revolutions, each one kicking Earth a bit farther to the margins.

Explore the cosmos and find your way around the night sky with the best astronomy books.

From midnight on September 7 to the early hours of September 8, a spectacular total lunar eclipse unfolded in the sky, attracting astronomy enthusiasts and the public from various locations to observe ...

An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art charts the development of astronomical knowledge across continents before ...