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.

Delivering a lecture at the New Year "Kōsho Hajime" ceremony. Each year at the Imperial Palace in Japan, leading scholars are ...

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

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 ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, we spoke with the creators of new picture books that highlight the enduring influence and ...

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

A rock measuring 900 meters is on a journey through our solar system, providing what is arguably one of the strongest pieces ...

In a distant part of our cosmos, an intriguing new world exists. This newly discovered exoplanet, identified as L 98-59 d, ...