"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

For more than a century, astronomers debated the possibility of martian canali (channels) which Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed to see on the Red Planet in 1877. Mistranslated into ...

Dürer's 1515 star charts were a game-changer for European courts, proving an obsession with astrology is nothing new ...

“Megaconstellations” of vast numbers of satellites could threaten space-based astronomy, scientists have warned.

After attending a friend’s wedding in Jaipur recently, we decided to explore the city. Jaipur, India’s first planned city, ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out late in the evening of December 9 and ...

The inaugural Global Space Awards ceremony gets underway this Friday (Dec. 5), as 340 guests converge at a glamorous red ...

Jesuit priest Fr Richard D’Souza, a galactic archaeologist at the Vatican Observatory, studies galactic cannibalism. His 2018 ...

See "Miracle on 34th Street: a Live Radio Play," watch an adults-only "Grinchy" comedy show, or sign up for letters from ...

Nearby what was thought to be the oldest known astrological observatory in the Western Hemisphere, archaeologists discovered one even older. The site in the Casma Valley of Peru could be centuries ...