In January, while examining ancient texts at Italy’s National Central Library of Florence, historian Ivan Malara found an unexpected set of handwritten notes. He was reviewing a 1551 printed edition ...

In July 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a “bit of scruff” in the radio data she was receiving at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Together with her Ph.D. advisor Antony Hewish, she zeroed ...

In the early 1980s, Carolyn Porco was completing her doctorate in earth and space sciences when she joined the Voyager team as an imaging scientist. As part of that mission, she collaborated with Carl ...

Galileo's handwritten notes in a 1551 copy of Ptolemy's Almagest National Central Library of Florence Notes, annotations and a Bible verse handwritten by a young Galileo Galilei around 1590 have ...

A historian has identified Galileo's handwritten notes in a rare 16th-century copy of one of history’s most influential astronomy books. The discovery includes marginal comments and a handwritten ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, we spoke with the creators of new picture books that highlight the enduring influence and ...

Born March 21, 1866, in New York, Antonia Maury was born into a family with an astronomical legacy: Her grandfather, John William Draper, was the second person to photograph the Moon (and the first ...

In a distant part of our cosmos, an intriguing new world exists. This newly discovered exoplanet, identified as L 98-59 d, seems to play host to a rare type of planetary environment.

So, it came as a shock to many people when, in 1781, it was announced that a seventh planet, the first to be discovered since ...

The jackalope is mythical, but Wyoming was home to an actual prehistoric rodent with two large horns on its head. The Ceratogaulus is one of the ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years ...