As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists ...

Sir Francis Graham-Smith in 2007: he carried out much important work on pulsars - Science Photo Library Sir Francis Graham-Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, who has died aged 102, was a pioneer of ...

That's a lot of standard candles. 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 ...

Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based telescopes. This polarized light scattered by the universe's very first stars over ...

The International Astronomical Union Office for Astronomy Outreach (IAU OAO) and the International Planetarium Society (IPS) will jointly host "100 Hours of Astronomy," a global event from October 2-5 ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

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Voshkod 1, launched on October 12, 1964, inaugurated the second series of Soviet manned spaceflights and represented the first mission by any nation to carry a multi-person crew, comprising three ...

The Lisska Center for Intellectual Engagement will host a roundtable discussion on time travel at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 5.