Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

NASA has scheduled the launch for the Artemis II moon rocket for no earlier than Feb. 8. WTOP will have details on the ...

Straddling the celestial equator, the constellation is visible in both hemispheres ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

Long forgotten and hidden under layers of religious texts, the world’s earliest star catalog has just resurfaced. Scientists ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky for ages, but some of the Milky Way’s most important features cannot be ...

As much as I love looking at the night sky, my love for astronomy really grew with the books I read. People often ask what books I would recommend for those interested in the subject, so this list ...

More people participating in the citizen science project Globe At Night could help fill gaps in what astronomers know about ...

Until recently, the science classroom at Government Girls Senior Secondary School No. 3 in Badarpur resembled a typical ...

Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night.

The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the study details how Webb's infrared instruments charted nearly 800,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field. The data reveal how dark matter – ...