Monterey County has long been known as a favorite playground for celebrities. Clint Eastwood still owns the Mission Ranch in ...

Astronomers have long thought the Milky Way was destined to merge with the nearby Andromeda galaxy. The aftermath of this ...

New insights were gained, thanks to the Department of Energy’s Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The eclipse in question occurred during the Zhou dynasty. Though the exact date is uncertain, some astronomers have pointed ...

Pioneer of general relativity and gravitational-wave theories saw her work confirmed by observations 65 years later.

In honor of the live-action 'Lilo & Stitch', we look back at 12 extra-terrestrials who came in peace. Aliens tend to fall ...

The temple of Goddess Vaishno Devi is one of the major and sacred Hindu temples dedicated to Parvati or Goddess Shakti the Divine Consort of Lord Shiva This beautiful temple lies ensconced among the p ...

Joe Rao (right) with Fred Espenak (left), taken at the 2017 Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) in Rockland County, NY. | Credit: Joe Rao On a personal note, I first met Fred about 50 years ago at a ...

Today in the history of astronomy, the telescope proposed by George Ellery Hale in 1928 finally comes to fruition.

“In the universe, an absolute vacuum is rare, and most of the universe is very low-density high-temperature plasma,” said Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. “In principle, sound ...

Thirty years ago, terraforming Mars wasn’t just hard — it was impossible,” said Erika DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs. Now, ...

To address this difficulty, astrophysicists from Villanova drafted in artificial intelligence (AI) in the hope that it could ...