The Lamat Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a cohort-based research program designed to advance ...

At dawn on February 22 and October 22, sunlight in Abu Simbel’s Great Temple illuminates three statues, underscoring 3,000-year-old astronomical engineering. The Abu Simbel Sun Festival highlights the ...

Far beyond our solar system, in the distant Pegasus constellation, lies a star system that is reshaping our understanding of ...

The Sterling Hill Mining Museum sits atop the world’s most diverse fluorescent mineral deposit, and if you haven’t been there yet, you’re missing out on one of the most spectacular natural phenomena ...

An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, revealing 13.7 million cosmic sources and delivering the most complete ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Beijing sparkles with Lunar New Year celebrations. NASA astronaut Chris Williams has shared an enchanting view of fireworks exploding in the sky over Beijing from the International Space Station (ISS) ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn morning in the Southern Hemisphere (false dawn). In early autumn, the timing ...

The LOFAR radio telescope has delivered the most detailed radio map of the northern sky to date. It provides new insights into active galaxies, star ...