Ithamar Hubble was born in 1762 in Connecticut to Daniel Hubbell and Sarah (Gregory) Hubble. At 17, in 1779, he volunteered ...

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

Birr Castle features the historic Great Telescope, award-winning gardens spanning 120 acres, and a Science Centre showcasing ...

These Black history figures are inspiring. It's about time they get the acknowledgment they deserve. Black History figures ...

One theory suggests the infamous Roman emperor survived an assassination attempt in the tunnel now open to the public.

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

The New Crescent Society, which is organizing the Greenwich event with the Royal Observatory, is hoping moon sighting will become fully established in Britain and be used by mosques.

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

China’s Einstein Probe has detected an event suspected to be the first recorded instance of a black hole devouring a white dwarf.

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's ...