A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

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The Right-wing populist’s professed aversion to “anarchism” never applies to actual Right-wing anarchism. Kapil Mishra is ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

The Original Seriesseason 1 because the USS Enterprise was missing something important. Although Star Trek launched on NBC in ...

The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

Astronomers have been fascinated by Saturn's magnificent rings since Galileo peered through his ... Laura Driessen, an astronomer at University of Sydney, says. "The rings are mostly made out ...

Galileo gave very few details of his observing ... Figure 1: Key optical innovations in astronomy. The drive was then on to build bigger and more powerful telescopes with greater magnification.

The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) has been observing large parts of the southern sky over a period of eight years in order to ...