At a time when the passage of time was dictated by the movement of the sun and the seasons, the introduction of “clock time” ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

All the major elements of NASA’s next flagship space telescope are now under one roof as NASA says its development remains on cost and schedule.

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for ...

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...

A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets. The ...

The mystery of the universe’s accelerated expansion remains one of the great enigmas of modern physics. Twenty-five years ago ...