When treasure hunters Mario Renner and Henry Westphal turned on their metal detectors in 1999 and started sweeping the ground ...

On October 1, 1847, Maria Mitchell discovered Comet C/1847 T1, subsequently known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet," from Nantucket, Massachusetts, utilizing a 2-inch reflector telescope. Following cautious ...

The planetarium is kicking off an academic-year-long celebration with special events each month to commemorate its 50th ...

From the sea to the stars, two University of Delaware doctoral students — one studying the ocean and the other the cosmos — ...

On Sept. 30, 1880, in a pioneering moment for astrophotography, amateur astronomer Henry Draper and his wife, Anna, captured the first image of the Orion Nebula. Though a medical doctor by trade, ...

In this “We the People” segment, FOX19 NOW’s Philip Krinsky discusses the history and impact of the Cincinnati Observatory.

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

A 12th-century poem dedicated to Saladin and a 15th-century chronicle provide new independent testimonies about the stellar explosions of the years 1006 and 1181, crucial for modern astrophysics. In a ...

Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ...

How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...

An international team has launched an ambitious program aimed at mapping exoplanets located around the "hot Neptune desert," ...