Among the wreckage of the Milky Way — where the violent deaths of stars usually leave chaos and crumpled shells — astronomers ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

In the new study, however, astronomers used the cutting-edge "Keck Planet Finder" (KPF) instrument as the W. M. Keck ...

In the 1950s, radio interference affected the new astronomy telescope, so they created a Quiet Zone. Even today, the place is ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.

In astronomy, we usually measure angular resolution in terms of things called arcminutes and arcseconds. This is a very old, even ancient, method of dividing up the sky. And for once, we have the ...

Eidul Adha is expected on June 7 in Pakistan, as astronomers predict the Zilhaj moon will likely be sighted on May 28. Dr Faheem Hashmi says the moon will be over 35 hours old by then, improving ...

Shi Shen's Star Catalogue, also called the Star Manual of Master Shi, was deduced to be the world's oldest by scientists ...

Furthermore, it was found that the star-formation activity in J1343+3644 is recent and has a notable portion of the old stellar population. The astronomers suppose that the merger with a satellite ...

Its unusual orbit and surprising mass raise questions about its origin, but astronomers will need follow-up observations with powerful telescopes to track its motion and confirm its identity.