In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...

This video examines why Christmas is celebrated on December 25th, despite the Bible never giving a date for Jesus’ birth. It ...

Within an international collaboration, an experimental research team of LENS investigated vortex dynamics in strongly ...

Star Wars fans will be well aware of Tatooine, the desolate, distant world inhabited by human settlers. In the films Tatooine ...

Shandin Pete says Indigenous astronomy seeks to reclaim stories on how and why star groupings and constellations look the way ...

Although this controversy might be specific to Chile, home to 40 percent of the world’s astronomy infrastructure, the project ...

Former Astronomer Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot made headlines after she and the company’s former CEO Andy Byron appeared on the kiss cam at the July 16 Coldplay concert — but what’s the deal ...

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In a field dominated by men and scarce resources, astrophysicist Manisha Dwa has carved out a path of her own. She is working to transform astronomy education in Nepal, empowering students and pushing ...

Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or relay data, are increasingly contaminating the frequencies astronomers use ...

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

A rare confluence of factors makes the Atacama an ideal home for some of the world’s biggest astronomical projects – dry climate, high altitude and, crucially, isolation from the light pollution of ...