Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has once again redefined the boundaries of cosmic observation. A recent study published via ...

There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern science—while Africa appears absent or myth-bound. This series, “When ...

X-ray scans recover an ancient Greek star map beneath a medieval text, revealing Aquarius clues and Hipparchus-linked ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the light of a star that exploded when the universe was still in its cosmic youth, revealing both the blast itself and the fragile galaxy that hosted it. By ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming stars at an intense rate from collapsing clouds of dust. Reported in ...

The big picture: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently managed to capture imagery of the oldest and farthest known supernova explosion – an event that occurred when the universe was just 730 ...