The New Crescent Society, which is organizing the Greenwich event with the Royal Observatory, is hoping moon sighting will become fully established in Britain and be used by mosques.

Europe hasn't hosted a total solar eclipse for ages, but that changes on August 12, 2026, when totality touches down on the continent's northwestern and ...

WASHINGTON — Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous neighbors, possibly after ...

Space is full of surprises, and in 2025, astronomers witnessed one of the most extraordinary events ever registered: a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that lasted seven ...

The Fermi Paradox asks a simple question: if the universe is so vast, why haven’t we detected other civilizations? Yet new ...

Astronomers have uncovered a hidden population of dusty galaxies that formed just one billion years after the Big Bang, offering a new glimpse into the universe’s formative years. An international ...

It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...

Scientists have long theorized about their existence, which has remained hypothetical; they've found galaxies with low surface brightness, and they've found dark galaxy candidates.

The open letter warns that early-career researchers will suffer the most from changes in the allocation of funding to scientific research ...

How any Earth-sized exoplanets exist, and how do we find them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Recent research has uncovered a barred spiral galaxy formed 11.5 billion years ago, making it one of the earliest known galaxies that contains a stellar bar. The research was supported by Yingjie ...