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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...