The first publication by Galileo Galilei has set a new auction record for the celebrated astronomer, selling for $1.5 million ...

Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

In October 1604, astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler spotted a new star in the sky and began tracking it. Over the course of several weeks, the star remained visible in the daytime and ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

Having recently read S J Parris’s novel Alchemy, set in 16th century Prague, and finding myself in the Czech capital on a ...

And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

Analemmas And The Equation Of Time: Why The Path Of The Sun Traces Out An 8 On Earth On Mars it traces out a teardrop, while on Jupiter, it is an ellipse.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

Johannes Faul, CFA, is a director for Morningstar.* He covers the Australian retail sector, including consumer staples Woolworths and Coles, as well as discretionary retailers like Wesfarmers ...