This video breaks down the real science behind the zodiac constellations, precession, and why there are technically 13 zodiac ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

Contrary to claims that 3I/ATLAS is no longer from Earth, space experts claim that the Manhattan-sized comet can now be ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening and observe the Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy. Charles Messier made this ...

Join a talk at noon on Nov. 11 with Daniel Muthukrishna, astrophysicist and machine learning research scientist at MIT and AstroAI Fellow at Harvard on "Causal Foundation Models: Disentangling Physics ...

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030 its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it remains an open question as to whether its successes matched humanity's ...

If you'd like to see the moon looking particularly big and bright, it's worth looking up on Wednesday evening.

The Smithsonian is one of the world’s foremost research centers in science, the arts, and the humanities. In addition to ...