Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

Following the World Heritage Committee’s Decision 29 COM 5.1 (Durban, 2005), which requested the Director of the World Heritage Centre to explore the Thematic Initiative “Astronomy and World Heritage” ...

Research by astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) could ...

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Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory recently opened the long-awaited Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center. Hundreds of ...

The United States and Mexico will strengthen partnerships in astronomy and astrophysics research, and look for opportunities ...