Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

The Original Seriesseason 1 because the USS Enterprise was missing something important. Although Star Trek launched on NBC in 1966 with Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in command of the ...

If space billboards do indeed make an abrupt splash in our sky, current space law doesn’t prohibit the displays from drifting over countries that have banned them, notes astronomer John ...

Now, researchers in astronomy and other fields are working with satellite companies to help quantify and mitigate the impacts on science — and society. “There is growing interest in ...

“If Earth had similar rings, they’d look like a weird line in the sky.” Even thoughGalileo Galilei first observed Saturn’s rings disappearing in 1612, modern observers will have a harder ...

They were spotted by Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago, in 1610. Saturn’s first known moon, Titan, was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens 45 years later. Jupiter’s four ...

With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy. The Babylonians lived from about 2,500 to 4,000 ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind’s first-ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy. The image, which was presented to ...

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.