At the Harvard College Observatory in years around 1900, women were hired to make measurements of astronomical data and do ...

Scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed one of the biggest head-scratchers in modern ...

When we gaze up at the night sky, it’s hard not to wonder about the vastness of the universe and its origins. The universe, ...

Credit: Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02479-w Water may have first formed 100–200 million years after the Big Bang, according to a modeling paper published in Nature Astronomy .

Firefly Aerospace’s lander reached lunar soil early Sunday morning, after a 2.8-million-mile journey lasting 45 days Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent For only the second time in history, a ...

Why it's so special: Nicknamed the "Great Comet of 2025," Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is currently the brightest comet predicted to be visible from Earth all year. Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the ...

Seven planets will be visibly in the night sky on Feb. 28. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars will be visible with the naked eye. Neptune and Uranus are both out, too, but you’ll need a telescope ...

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Historically, married women in the United States have done the lion’s share of their households’ laundry, cooking and cleaning. But that gendered norm appears to be shifting, with the gap ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe the night sky in more detail. The best telescopes unlock the wonders of the night sky right from your backyard and beyond. Bring the Moon and planets into ...

Not one, not two, but seven planets are due to line up in the night skies later this week in a relatively rare planetary parade. The phenomenon will see Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Saturn ...

This is colloquially referred to as a “planetary parade,” or a “parade of planets,” but these are not astronomy terms used to describe the event, according to NASA. All planets revolve ...