A few decades ago, the Solar System had nine planets, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union classified Pluto as a ...

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From a new year's meteor shower to a trio of planets in the night sky, here are the top astronomy events to mark in your ...

A pioneer in adapting the spectroscope to new astronomical purposes, William Huggins rose to scientific prominence in London and transformed professional astronomy to become a principal founder of the ...

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Like the subject of a previous Picture of the Week, ... NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

For updates on these and other events, you can make regular visits to The Times Space and Astronomy calendar. The New Glenn vehicle was rolled out at Cape Canaveral, Fla., in February to undergo a ...

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Stella Offner, associate professor of astronomy, will deliver her talk “Advancing New Frontiers in Astronomy Data Analysis, Modeling, and Discovery with Artificial Intelligence.” The Department of ...