Our cover image is The Astronomer, painted by the Dutch master Vermeer Van Delft (1632-1675), ca. 1668. After Raymond Whitlock, our art director, chose the image, he was delighted to discover a ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading data orchestration and observability platform powered by Apache Airflow®, today announced the winners of ...

A nuclear weapon could potentially be sent into space to deflect an asteroid heading Earth's way, an astronomer has told Sky News. Dr David Whitehouse said the measure could be taken against a ...

As the director of the Vatican Observatory, known informally as “the pope’s astronomer,” he has just published his 13th book — “A Jesuit’s Guide to the Stars: Exploring Wonder ...

In an exclusive interview, TSF spoke to Henk Vermeer, a key figure in the Dutch Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) and a member of the House of Representatives. As one of the founding members of the BBB, ...

Indian astronomer Dorje Angchuk has captured a stunning time-lapse video that vividly showcases Earth’s rotation against the tranquil backdrop of Ladakh. Filmed from the Indian Astronomical ...

A CRACK IN EVERYTHING: How Black Holes Came In From the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage, by Marcus Chown When writing about the complexities of our universe, the astronomer turned author Marcus ...

“One of Hubble’s lasting achievements will be how it showed the public the wonders of the universe,” Kenneth Sembach, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told National ...

Did Jiminy Cricket lie to us? As an astronomer, I’m happy to say that the stars we can see in the night sky are a lot closer and live a lot longer than you would think. It’s pretty unlikely ...

The video has been shot from the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Hanle. Indian astronomer Dorje Angchuk has captured a breathtaking time-lapse video that showcases the Earth's rotation against ...

On Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott, using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...