The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

As we round the corner of 2024, there are plenty of events happening when you should keep your eyes to the sky.

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region around a star where planets receive enough stellar energy to have ...

Another astronomical event could be visible in the coming nights as the second branch of the Taurid meteor shower reaches its ...

According to Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 2024 PT5 will be Earth's temporary ‘mini-moon’. Though it ...

The Taurids are rich in fireballs, astronomers say. An astronomical phenomenon could grace the night sky with its presence on ...

The Taurids are one of the most peculiar meteor showers in the sky. It is a double event, known astronomically as the ...

LEOMINSTER — Students enjoyed a week of STEM activities and field trips offered by the Spanish American Center during the ...

It contains over 150 tutorial figures, numerous examples of astronomical measurements, and 201 exercises. Topics covered include the Kepler–Newton problem, stellar structure, binary evolution, ...

Science has changed all that; and tbese periodic phenomena are now eagerly anticipated, and closely observed, for the astronomical data which they afford. Formerly the chief use to which the total ...

University of Göttingen (2009), Karen Harvey Prize of the American Astronomical Society (2009), Full Professor, University of Göttingen (since 2011), Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck ...

XICHANG, June 22 (Xinhua) -- China on Saturday launched an astronomical satellite, the result of nearly 20 years of hard work between Chinese and French scientists, to capture gamma-ray bursts ...