The Royal Society King’s Medal in gold awarded to Sir John Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS (1792-1871), one of the great British scientists of the 19th century is estimated to fetch in excess of ...

In addition to core physics courses, I enjoy teaching Musical Acoustics and the Physics of Sports for non- science majors. I also teach in the Program in Environmental Studies at Bates, with courses ...

In the weeks leading up to February 16's three-hour 50th anniversary celebration on NBC, the team behind Saturday Night Live has selected one sketch from every single season — 50 seasons in 50 ...

A former leading astronomer has walked free from court with ... Newtownards Magistrates Court heard how predatory pervert John Flynn, once described as “beyond rehabilitation”, weaselled ...

On Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott, using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...

The 245th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society is being held Jan. 12 to Jan. 16 and will feature remarkable findings from the James Webb Space Telescope. Thousands of scientists from ...

They are not to scale but are in their relative positions. Credit: NASA/JPL Galileo Galilei’s telescopic discovery of Jupiter’s four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

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Here’s your chance to turn that curiosity into an extraordinary opportunity… We’re looking for a Young Astronomer to take residence at the Royal Observatory Greenwich — and it could be you! This isn’t ...

Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, explained that the planets don't suddenly "click" into visible positions on certain dates. They come into various alignments above our ...

Using commercially available telescopes and spectral filters, an amateur astronomer named Steve Hill collected data to map the abundance of ammonia in Jupiter's atmosphere, but Hill ultimately ...