More than a thousand years before the first telescopes, Babylonian astronomers tracked the motion of planets across the night sky using simple arithmetic. But a newly translated text reveals that ...

A new introductory textbook called Astronomy has just been published by OpenStax, a national, non-profit project to develop high-quality, introductory textbooks that are free to students. The ...

THE professed object of the author was to satisfy the requirements of civil engineering students, who are unlikely to take up a more advanced study of astronomy, and to produce a text-book ...

In August, we reported that a letter presumably written by Galileo Galilei—part of the collection of the University of Michigan's library—was actually a forgery, along with a similar document in the ...

EVERY student of astronomy is familiar with this well-known text-book, and it is not too much to say that it is as well used this side of the Atlantic as it is on the other. Written for a general ...

The “mother of dark matter” was a force of nature—and a forceful advocate for other women who wanted to dedicate their career to the cosmos. Johanna Teske: Ok, this is a spectrum. Teske: Vera Rubin ...