Lanakila Mangauil, one of the most recognizable faces of the movement to stop construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on ...

More than 4,000 years after the stones of Stonehenge were erected on what today is Salisbury Plain in the U.K., astronomers and archaeologists are still investigating its connections to the sky above.

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal ...

The New Crescent Society, which is organizing the Greenwich event with the Royal Observatory, is hoping moon sighting will become fully established in Britain and be used by mosques.

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series on the “Living Record: A Church News Documentary Series” on BYUtv called “People of Faith.” Part 1 features pioneers from Brazil, and Part 2 ...

St. Louis founded, St. Valentine's Massacre, Galileo's birth, Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, shaping history and culture ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Astrophysicist and former Division I college football star Dakotah Tyler is headlining Mississippi State’s Black History Month program “From Gridirons to Galaxies” this month.

Black History Month should not be about trivia or symbolic firsts. It should be about unlearning—about dismantling the white perspective that framed Africa as marginal and Black people as derivative.

A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

Long forgotten and hidden under layers of religious texts, the world’s earliest star catalog has just resurfaced. Scientists have managed to pull fragments of it from a 1,500-year-old manuscript by ...