Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

In Astronomy's 2022 list of the 20 greatest astronomers of all time, Associate Editor Michael Bakich ranked Tycho Brahe No. 2 ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan ...

It's great to see old astronomical observations come to light. Not only can these confirm or refute what's known about ...

In most Ancient Greek philosophical circles, the theory of a spherical earth was accepted by around the 5th century BC, and ...

It is profoundly satisfying to see that the philosophy I have long championed—#creativedestruction—has been honoured with the ...

Look south of the moon's equator on Oct. 4 to find Mare Nubium (Latin for "the Sea of Clouds") darkening a vast swathe of the ...