URBANA — Renovation for the Campus Observatory is no simple task as workers repair, replace and restore a structure that has been standing at the University of Illinois for 140 years. "The ...

With today's solar eclipse drawing the attention of millions around the world, it's the perfect opportunity to look back at ...

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with ...

After spending the 1850s at Harvard Observatory calculating orbits, Asaph Hall became an assistant at the U.S. Naval Observatory at Washington, D.C., in 1862. He was quickly promoted, and by 1873 had ...

The Smithsonian Institution began collecting aeronautical artifacts in 1876, when it acquired 20 Chinese Imperial kites. By the end of World War I, a Section of Aeronatics had been established within ...

Look up on a dark night and the Milky Way appears as a calm band of stars across the sky. But our galaxy has a violent past. For more than 13 billion years it has grown through star formation and ...

Prof Wyn Evans, who raised concerns over treatment of female staff at Institute of Astronomy, was subject to ‘baseless’ investigation, judge rules ...

From ancient times to today, eclipses have gone from being seen as omens to becoming scientific laboratories. These five ...

The Nature study led by Hyderabad-raised astronomer Rohan Naidu examines MoM-BH-1, a strange JWST source from 660 million ...

The proposed CosmoCube spacecraft could use the Moon's far side to detect ancient hydrogen signals and study the universe ...

The telescope has given all of us a front-row seat to cosmic history. We should give it another lease on life.

A galaxy simulation shows that nuclear star clusters and nuclear stellar disks can grow together as a stellar bar funnels gas ...