The fall season officially begins on the calendar this Sunday, with the autumn equinox. For those of us in the northern ...

Imagine going back thousands of years and showing off the cool astronomical functions of your smartphone. It can tell the ...

These small galaxies are either crammed with stars or they host gigantic black holes. The data astronomers have collected ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...

SpaceX's new Starlink satellites are so radio noisy that they could blind radio astronomy observatories to the universe's ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,500-year-old astronomy observatory in Egypt, revealing advanced knowledge of the sun and ...

There is an ancient Greek scientist who discovered the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the Earth was a sphere.

Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary-general of the SCA, said the latest findings highlight the "ingenuity and skill" of the ancient Egyptians when it came to astronomy. The Egyptians had an advanced ...

The study of celestial objects ran throughout ancient Egyptian culture. Religious events were fixed by the movements of the sun and moon, star charts were carved into the lids of tombs, and the ...

A rare 16th Century astronomy book written by a Welshman has sold for £10,000 at auction. A first edition of The Castle of Knowledge by Robert Recorde - the man who also invented the equals sign ...

Cullen, Christopher Huang, Yi-Long Vogel, Hans Ulrich Yoke, Ho Peng Pacey, Arnold Mercier, Raymond Hudson-Rodd, Nancy Hsu, Mei-Ling Dutt, Ashok K. Buang, Amriah ...

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