“The ease of making calculations using this system had direct implications for astronomy and allowed ... using the sophisticated planetary instruments brought together in the Mingtang (Hall ...

The astrolabe, a complex instrument utilized by ancient mariners, is key to establishing latitude by observing celestial ...

Einstein Probe's Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) detected a burst of low-energy X-rays. Astronomers call such X-rays "soft," ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the study of exoplanets, worlds beyond the solar system.

Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission , have revealed new ...

This signal, known as the 21 cm line, has been detected since the 1950s and is used widely in astronomy ... volume of the visible universe. Future instruments will help reach all the way back.

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by ...

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission - and its fuel is now nearly empty.

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Scientists analysing samples from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission , have revealed new ...