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Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...
Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...
Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...
Kluger, who has written about the Apollo Program, talks about his new book: 'Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold ...
I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.
In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen tho ...
It must be hard being a judge for ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The competition, organized by the Royal Observatory ...
The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...
These large 15x70 binoculars are ideal for starting your astronomy journey — see the moon, planets and deep space objects.
The shortlist for Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 features 30 photographs selected from more than 5,800 global ...
At an exhibition in the heart of China's capital, Beijing, cosmic data becomes tangible art.