A new lecture series at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will honor one of the most influential figures in the city’s astronomy history while bringing a distinguished alumnus back to the ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

Stellar streams are trails of stars that astronomers can study to solve mysteries about the history of our Milky Way galaxy ...

Learn how galactic archaeology uses chemical clues to uncover how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years.

Spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is located about 56 million light-years from us. It is a pretty special galaxy, with two beautiful ...

To understand how we started counting, and still count today, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, though, we need to wind the clock back to an era before the dawn of ...

Utahraptor State Park is named for a famous dinosaur. But it has even more to offer.

Extragalactic archaeology has come of age, with astronomers for the first time reconstructing the history of a spiral galaxy.

The majority of London schools begin their Easter holidays this week. If you've got children or teenagers to entertain, have ...

Catching a comet in the process of falling apart is difficult, but a coincidence let astronomers see one in more detail than ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a video of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, constructed from images taken by a probe ...