The star Polaris marks the North Celestial Pole in our sky, around which all other objects in the heavens appear to rotate.

Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th anniversary Founded in 1675 by King Charles II, the Royal Observatory ...

The Evolution of Gas Mapping and the Role of Cepheid Variables One of the key challenges in mapping the Milky Way’s gas disk has been the reliance on kinematic distances, which convert velocity ...

New measurements of the universe’s expansion using James Webb Space Telescope appear to resolve the Hubble constant conflict ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

It wouldn’t be the last time Hubble would shift the paradigm. In 1929, he reported that all but a few galaxies are moving away from us, with more-distant galaxies moving faster than nearby ones. The ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

At the ‘Astronomy Olympiad’ — Orientation-cum-Selection Camp (OCSC) held at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, five students were selected on Wednesday ...

The Astronomy Olympiad Orientation Cum Selection Camp (OCSC) is being held at IISER Mohali. The camp aims to provide training to bright students selected through national-level exams and also test ...

Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a curious new object started flashing across the message boards.