Astronomy

See newly released concept art for Celestial Park, one of the five "worlds" of the Universal Epic Universe theme park, coming in 2025.

NASA's recent budget request doesn't offer hope for a leading X-ray astronomy spacecraft. Scientists are pretty worried.

An explanation of the Wow! signal as used in the new Netflix sci-fi series, "3 Body Problem."

The astrolabe dates from 11th-century Spain and has origins that are Islamic, Jewish and Christian.

The upcoming photobook 'Route de la Belle Etoile' documents the efforts and enthusiasm of amateur astronomers worldwide.

I’m an astronomer who studies and writes about cosmology. Researchers have discovered over 5,600 exoplanets in the past 30 years, and their extraordinary diversity continues to surprise astronomers.

The comet-like asteroid Phaethon likely lobbed thousands of rocky fragments toward Earth while rapidly spinning around the sun 18,000 years ago, new research suggests ― and it may fling some more soon.

Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than vice versa.

Mysterious "odd radio circles" or ORCs that compass entire galaxies may have finally been explained, with astronomers pointing the finger at winds from bursts of supernova star explosions.

NASA has laid out a roadmap for major aspects that need to be addressed while developing a robotic system that can explore icy moons with water oceans.