One of my great joys as an astronomer is sharing the night sky with people. There is something wondrous about helping people ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

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Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...

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A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

People looking for the “comet of the century”, known officially as Comet A3, should turn their head to the west, according to an astronomer. The comet has not been seen since neanderthal times, and ...

Russian astronomer Valerij Kozhevnikov has performed photometric observations of a candidate cataclysmic variable known as LAMOST J035913.61+405035.0. He detected 14 eclipses of this system.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...