On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei turned his self-built telescope, which he had recently made improvements to, towards Jupiter ...

Steward Observatory’s long running Public Lecture series aims to make the complex field of Astronomy accessible to everyone.

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Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

Tucked within the hilltop campus of the University of Coimbra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Biblioteca Joanina is a ...

Planetary alignments, a total lunar eclipse, and meteor showers are highlights to look for in the coming year.

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Longtime readers will recognize the name Dean Regas, astronomy contributor to The Enquirer and former cohost of the PBS series "Star Gazers," but they may not know that Regas is also the author of ...

The author, a writer with interests in astronomy and history, acquired a seven-volume set of Pierre Gassendi's works, signed and bookplated by Charles Messier in 1756. The acquired set includes ...

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A University of Virginia astronomy professor will take part in a book talk at signing at a Charlottesville bookshop this weekend. Kelsey Johnson will be speaking about her new nonfiction book, Into ...

Opening the newly published children’s book “Mia and the Martians,” readers see a young girl rushing to the edge of the page, proudly outstretching a pink rocket in her hand. The reader learns what ...