RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda based reinsurance company and third-party capital manager, has reported raising almost $238 million in additional third-party capital from investors for some of its ILS ...

Last week such connoisseurs took note, with panic or delight, of a controversy which concerned a painting called The Guitar Player, executed long ago by famed Jan Vermeer der Delft; a painting of ...

“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 ...

At first, you might not notice anything at all. But look again. For the next month, the planets are aligned. Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will all be in an (almost) straight ...

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 ...

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 ...

On January 5, 2025, Syed Ashraf Uddin, a faculty member, astronomer and astrophysicist from the University of South Carolina, USA, delivered a lecture at the 3rd Colloquium of the Center for Astronomy ...

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 ...

“If this is true, it’s super cool,” says astronomer Mercedez López-Morales of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, who was not involved in the new work. “For the first time ...

As a result, the science of cosmology exploded almost overnight. Hubble's contemporary, the distinguished Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley, upon Hubble notifying him of the discovery, was devastated.

A former leading astronomer has walked free from court with a conditional discharge despite breaching his lifelong Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) — again. Newtownards Magistrates Court ...

"The alignment of J0410−0139's jet with our line of sight allows astronomers to peer directly into the heart of this cosmic powerhouse," study co-author Emmanuel Momjian, an astronomer at the ...