The Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical calculator, was found in a Roman-era shipwreck near ...

On nights with little to no ambient light from the moon, a ghostly glow shaped like a hazy pyramid of light can be seen for a ...

Astronomers have found early evidence of the Universe’s transformation from a foggy, opaque state to a transparent one, ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and the Pythagoreans.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

The gold ring, coins, and gold leaves found in ancient Corinth, Greece. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture The tomb, discovered in Chiliomodi near Corinth, features a T-shaped funerary structure dating ...

Vera Rubin, M.S. ’51, the pioneering astronomer whose groundbreaking research on galaxy rotation rates provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter, will be honored on a U.S. Quarter ...

This repository contains the helm charts for deploying the Astronomer Platform into a Kubernetes cluster. Astronomer is a commercial "Airflow as a Service" platform that runs on Kubernetes. Source ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind’s first-ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy. The image, which was presented to ...

Zoom into an amazing James Webb Space Telescope view of galaxy NGC 3256. It is " the wreckage of a head-on collision between two equally massive spiral galaxies," according to ESA/NASA. Credit ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago, according to new research published in Nature Astronomy from an ...