Astronomical realist painters play a crucial, yet often underappreciated, role in synthesizing scientific data to visualize extraterrestrial environments, translating numerical measurements into human ...

Learn more about two of the earliest reports of a total solar eclipse and corona, which were recorded in China, and solve ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.

Now, on the rooftop of one of New York City’s most iconic museums: thick, black metallic bars, forming a large interlocking framework of rectangles. Perched delicately on the rectangle’s intersections ...

The mysterious “space gum” never seen in cosmic rocks before its discovery in the Bennu samples likely formed in the solar system’s infancy, NASA said. According to the agency, the molecules it ...

Artist's interpretation of an ancient total solar eclipse. This illustration is based on artistic imagination and does ...

Fig. 2: The Radcliffe wave. The clouds that comprise this structure are highlighted in red and superimposed on an artist's illustration of the Milky Way. The location of the Sun is highlighted by the ...

At her ongoing exhibition in Beijing, Sichuan artist Zhang Mengrou has experimented with the idea of solar terms to render ...

Astronomers have almost certainly detected a second interstellar comet zooming through our Solar System, but there’s still quite a lot of work to be done to find out more about this alien space rock.