June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is considered by many to be the birthplace of modern astronomy. To celebrate, we're ...

In August, a total solar eclipse will traverse Ameica for the first time in nearly a century. So many tourists are expected to flood states along the eclipse’s path that authorities are concerned ...

Scientists have incredibly advanced tools to look at the stars today, but in the era before light pollution, star-gazing was much easier and simpler for the average person—just step outside at night.

Copernicus is inarguably one of the greatest minds of science. His contributions to modern astronomical understanding have earned him a permanent position in the hall of science's greatest (and ...

The vastness of space and the puzzling nature of the cosmic objects that occupy it provides no shortage of material for astronomers to ponder. To round up some of the most enduring mysteries in the ...

G. Jogesh Babu is director of the Center for Astrostatistics at Penn State, and Eric Feigelson is the center's associate director and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State. The authors ...

Research collaboration: Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Astronomy and Space Exploration is a research collaboration whose article contributions are accrued to its participating partner ...