Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

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Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to ...

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.

A father-daughter duo cracked an 'alien code' sent by the ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter after a year of work.

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If I ask you to picture a radio telescope, you probably imagine a large dish pointing to the sky, or even an array of dish ...

Città della Scienza hosts the new evocative "Appointment in the Milky Way" on November 8 at the Planetarium. It will be an evening divided into two time slots (7:00 PM or 8:30 PM) full of ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...