Prasun Chaudhuri on a science camp for school children in West Midnapore steered by astronomers from the Indian Centre for ...

"Our experiments provide clues to better understand JWST Europa observations and serve as a prelude to upcoming close-range ...

Since Galileo first observed them through his telescope in the early 1600s, sunspots have fascinated scientists.

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery. Astronomers ...

It’s certainly possible to consume water sourced from the icy rings of Saturn, but doing so safely may require extra steps ...

The waning crescent Moon would be passing in front of the Pleiades open star cluster on July 20, 2025, for sky watchers to ...

In 2025, Pope Leo XIV visited the Vatican Observatory. He commemorated the 1969 moon landing. He observed the Sea of ...

On July 20, for viewers in the US and Canada, the waning crescent Moon will pass in front of the Pleiades, eclipsing them ...

Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of ...

Sunspots, those mysterious dark patches on the Sun’s surface, have been observed by astronomers for thousands of years. Yet, ...

For those who pay attention to my columns, I have described lately how our two outermost planetary neighbours have conveniently located themselves very close to unmistakable naked eye objects –– no ...

Astronomers unveiled a striking view of the new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS on its journey toward the inner solar system.