If you want more out of amateur astronomy, astrophotography is the way to go, and will really enhance your experience. It can be an extremely satisfying and enjoyable hobby. John Natale is an ...

"It's a triumph of modern astronomy," said Vikram Ravi, an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech and co-author of the paper. "We're beginning to see the universe's structure and composition ...

Milky Way Linked to Huge Cosmic Structures That Test Modern Cosmology Boundaries, New Study Suggests As humans’ understanding ...

"Every modern astronomy textbook includes contributions from Hubble." For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has served as humanity's tireless eye in the sky, capturing breathtaking views of the ...

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy.

Modern astronomers have speculated that, in the beginning, all galaxies formed in large halos of dark matter, a mysterious-yet-abundant substance that doesn't shine or interact with light. These ...

Astronomers detected a 40-to-80-meter asteroid, dubbed a “city killer,” with the potential to collide with Earth in 2032, but Reynier Squillace is not worried. Squillace is a second-year graduate ...

When faced with their unexpected observations of acceleration, modern astronomers thought that perhaps the cosmological constant could explain the unexpected stretching of space. Bizarre as it was ...