Identifying how ... Jan. 15, 2025 — Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly ...

Scientists say the star system in the constellation Corona Borealis explodes every 80 years or so. Astronomers say it could erupt again on March 27, according to a paper published by the American ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

AD: Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy begins his observations of the heavens. 1668: England takes control of Bombay. 1780: The ...

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.

The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

In the chaotic aftermath of Mongol expansion in the mid-13th century which had left the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in ruin, a new centre of learning soon came to the forefront. Ironically it was the ...

This so-called Geocentric model was the construction of famous Greek mathematician, astronomer Ptolemy. The model, though invaluable in helping to predict the positions of the stars and planets ...

Aristarchus proposed this idea around the 3rd century BC. However, the Greek astronomer Ptolemy’s geocentric model dominated science for a millennium. Seleucus supported Aristarchus’ model and ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and ...

"See it with your own eyes." "Enjoy it. See it with your own eyes," Emily Rice, an astronomer at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, told Mashable. Rice also works with the ...