After 350 years, the UK's first female Astronomer Royal has been appointed. Professor Michele Dougherty will act as an ...

Professor Michele Dougherty, the newly appointed Astronomer Royal, is best known for discoveries that have reshaped how ...

This paper provides concrete evidence that the expanding and accelerating Universe mathematically expressed by dark energy is ...

What can lava planets, rocky exoplanets that are tidally locked and orbit so close to their stars that the intense heat melts ...

Astronomers propose a giant, hidden planet beyond Neptune to explain odd orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

The expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation, which promises to bring faster internet to remote corners of the ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Scientists have created a once-theoretical molecule under space-like conditions, revealing new insights into the chemistry of the cosmos and the origins of complex compounds. Scientists from the ...

Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...

For Harold Kozak, one of life’s greatest pleasures is the opportunity to educate the public about the stars and the vast ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a ...