A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) hasn't yet begun its much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time. But it saw its first ...

The glow of the moon will even cast faint shadows on the ground, a rare effect visible only during the most intense ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth ...

They called him the Sphinx of Delft. He was one of art’s most enigmatic figures, a painter whose serene interiors concealed as much as they revealed. Soon after his death in 1675, unscrupulous dealers ...

Despite an abundance of data suggesting interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — the third object ever detected ripping through our solar system — is simply a comet, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb still hasn’t ...

The mystery behind the famous 1977 “Wow!” signal has gained renewed attention after a Harvard astronomer proposed that the newly observed interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be linked to the event. The ...

In August 1974, when the Sterrewacht in Leiden moved from the buildings which it had occupied since 1861, its archives moved with it. During the time of the removal Professor van de Hulst received a ...

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Former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron looks to have patched things up with wife, Megan, after he was caught canoodling with his chief people officer at a Coldplay concert on July 16. The married couple was ...

Former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was spotted with his wife three months after being caught on a Jumbotron hugging coworker Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert. The Daily Mail published photos on ...